58 A JOURNEY ON FOOT TO THE PATANI FRONTIER. 
mines of Kroh, Intan and others. Perhaps the most interesting 
statement he makes regarding them is that “a very intelligent 
native who came from Banca and surveyed the tin-mines up the 
Kuala Muda declared that the produce might, in a few years, be 
rendered fully equal to Banca, and offered to establish a colony of 
miners, but was prevented by the exorbitant demands of the King, 
who wished to have one half of all the produce.” The monthly 
produce of the mines seems to have been, prior to 1824, about 50 
bharas from Kroh and 200 from Intan. These two mines, together 
with Galian Mas and Ampat Ayer, are described by ANDERSON as 
being “the principal tin-mines in the Patani country.” In his 
time, as at the present day, the tin exported from this district was 
taken on elephants over the hills to Pulai and thence sent down 
the river to Kuala Muda in small boats. 
I gather from observations in some of Colonel Low’s con- 
tributions to the Journal of the Indian Archipelago * that he 
visited these mines in 1836, but I am not aware that he ever pub- 
lished any account of his journey. 
At the period of my visit, the miners at Intan numbered about 
40 persons, all being under the control of Panglima Cuwane, who 
seems to share the Banca man’s opinion as to the value of the 
mines, for he told me that, if the term were easier, he would have 
no difficulty in getting 1,000 men to work there. The Raja of 
Reman and his Mengkongs certainly seem determined to kill the 
goose with the golden eggs. The title on which Panglima Cuwane 
holds his mine was shewn to me and I read it aloud to a group in 
the smelting house amid various expressions of opinion not 
favourable to the dynasty of Reman. It was a long Malay docu- 
ment with the Raja’s seal stamped in red upon it in the upper 
right hand corner. The conditions were that all the tin produced 
from the mines should be delivered to the Mengkong of Betong 
at the rate of $24 a bhara. No smelting was to be carried on 
except in the presence of an agent sent by the Mengkong, who 
would check the amount of tin produced. Opium was to be sup- 
plied by the Patani Chief at $24 a ball, and provisions of various 
kinds at fixed prices. 
as WO HID 2B} 180. Dissertation on Province Wellesley, 2287, 
