A JOURNEY ON FOOT TO THE PATANI FRONTIER. 43 
Té was annoying to think that all our calculations had been upset 
by the unlucky chance which had made our arrival coincide with a 
village festivity. It was an accident which could not have been 
guarded against. 
Intervals of leisure which the curiosity of our visitors left me 
were bestowed in writting letters reporting progress for the infor- 
mation of Government and others. Haji ABUBAKaR superintended 
the transformation of our ball of opium into chandoo, the form in 
which the drug is used by smokers. This was eifected by cooking 
the raw opium im acopper vessel with the addition of a littie 
molasses and other ingredients. It was a task which seemed to 
require the undivided attention of several men for a good many 
hours and resulted in the production of a large bottle full of a 
brown seri-liquid substance of the consistency of treacle. It was 
very useful afterwards in dealing with Sayyid Maumup and Kulup 
-Momamep, both devoted to opium-smeking. 
I saw to-day a Sakai girl who had been adopted by a Patani 
family. She was dressed in all respects lke Malay girls, but 
differed a good deal from them in height and features. She wore 
a pair of huge silver earrings, which I was told are a national 
characteristic of Patani costume. As an illustration of the size of 
the holes whieh Patani women produce in the lobes of their ears 
by the use of these enormous earrings, I was told by sume eld 
inhabitants that many women taken prisoners by the Siamese in 
Tunku Kvpin’s war (1831), were tied together on the march by 
long lines of rotan seni (a fine kind of rattan) passed through the 
holes in their ears. 
Eram returned in the afternoon and announced that Maharaja 
Lena and his people were certainly on the other side of the Perak 
river, most likely at Berkuning, just opposite the mouth of the 
Rui river. 
At night the Penghulu paid me a visit to inform me that he had 
received intelligence from Kernei, where Tuan Prang resides, that 
Waw Mousty, the brother-in-law of this Chief, would come and see 
me to-morrow. Tuan Prang’s wife is the sister of the Raja of 
Reman and is credited with much power aud influence. Penghulu 
Lupin evidently and very naturally did not like his position. He 
