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greenish brown, paling at the sides, belly white ; this was quite a 

 young specimen, not full-grown. Agoi said that a full-grown 

 specimen would be very much larger. This certainly was nearly the 

 biggest frog I had ever seen, so that the species is probably one of 

 the largest in the Peninsula; it is called bdong <Mduk( x ) in Malay. 

 bebap being the Jakun term, which appears to be a generic one 

 for frog. The noise this species makes is almost unearthly, and 

 quite disagreeable ; there is one other sound I noticed in the jungle 

 at night-time, which, though otherwise different, resembles it in 

 this peculiar way: it is that made by the Jiantu semambu, which is 

 very weird, consisting of three or four long-drawn notes rising and 

 falling but slightly, but the effect it is impossible to describe ; the 

 JaJcuns say it is a weather guide. Further inquiry regarding the 

 route to Chimundong only elicited the statement that if we followed 

 the course of the Madek for seven or eight days we should reach it, 

 or might do so in four days through the jungle, but that there was 

 no regular path to it. I have already hinted reasons why the true 

 facts were probably withheld from me, but want of time obliged 

 me to forego the application of any test as to the truth of the state- 

 ments made. 



A cousin of Cue Musa, named Melan, whom he had brought 

 with him from the Lenggor, stated that a few months before, he 

 had gone with a party of Jakuns from Kenalau (the chief Jahun 

 settlement on the Sembrong) to the source of the Kahang at the 

 foot of Gunong Blumut, a six daj^ journey (probably circuitous) 

 through the jungle ; and that half way they came upon the remains 

 of an extensive building surrounded with brick walls, not very far 

 from the river : there were also, he said, plenty of cultivated fruit 

 trees about : he mentioned, I think, the dfirian and manggostin 

 among others. The Jakuns called the place Delek, but could tell 

 him nothing about the building. Xow Logan, in his account of the 

 Kahang, mentions Danlek as being a place on that river whither 

 the Jakuns habitually resorted to enjoy themselves in quiet during 

 the durian season : there can be no doubt that Delek and Danlek 

 are one and the same, but Logan seems to have heard nothing 

 about the ruins in the neighbourhood. In his paper " Ethnological 

 Excursions in the Malay Peninsula" (Journal Straits Branch of the 



(!) " Baong,' ; usually a fish in Malay. 



