A JOURNEY ON FOOT TO THE PATANE FRONTIER. 3 
at large in Ulu Perak,* the most inaccessible part of the country. 
All sorts of contradictory rumours about their movements were 
received from time to time by the British officers serving in differ- 
ent parts of Perak. At the time that Panpax Input, one of the 
proscribed persons, was reported to have been killed in Ulu Perak, 
information, which proved better founded, was received at Kwala 
Kangsa that he was living in Lower Perak more than one hundred 
miles from the scene of his supposed death. In March, Datoh 
Sacor was captured, but, so far, the large reward offered for the 
principal offender, Maharaja Lua, had been inefficacious. 
The Larut Field Force, which had been organised in Calcutta 
and despatched to the Straits in November, 1875, was recalled in 
March, and Kwala Kangsa, which had for some months been the 
head-quarters of a Brigadier-General and a force composed of 
detachments of two Regiments (lst Battalion “The Buffs” and 
Ist Ghoorkhas) besides Artillery, Madras Sappers and a Naval 
Brigade (H. M. S. Modeste and Philomel) was comparatively 
deserted, the place of the departing troops being taken by a small 
detachment 1st Battalion 10th Regiment. 
While the Larut Field Force remained in Perak, I had the 
honour of being attached to it as a political officer, and it was my 
duty to obtain information of all kinds bearing upon the objects 
of the expedition. By the orders of the Governor of the Straits 
Settlements, I had taken with me from the district (Province 
Wellesley), in which I had served for two years as Stipendiary 
Magistrate, a small body of Malays (British subjects) to facilitate 
communications with the Malays of Perak. These men had wil- 
lingly enlisted for temporary employment without regular pay, a 
trifle of money in hand to leave with their families and their daily 
* Ulu in this context signifies “ upper’ “ up country” “ interior.” 
Other Malay words which will be used in connection with the names of 
places are :— 
Gunong, mountain. 
Sungei, river. 
Kwala, mouth of a river. 
Bukit, hill. 
Ayer, Water, stream. 
Pangkalan, place of landing and embarkation. 
Kampong, village, hamlet, plantation. 
Dusun, grove. 
