A JOURNEY ON FOOT TO THE PATANI FRONTIER. 63 
obtained for one cent each, or eight centsadozen. Bullocks and buf- 
faloes seemed to be plentiful in Baling, and altogether itis a thriving 
place. The Chinese traders there purchase the tin produced at 
Intan and all kinds of produce from the Malays and send periodi- 
cal cargoes to Penang. 
Several individuals of the aboriginal tribe called Sakai were 
noticed by my people at Baling. Some of them are slaves in the 
houses of Malays, by whom they have been brought up from child- 
hood. . 
In the evening, after an infinity of trouble, I succeeded in ob- 
taining a covered boat, large enough to convey my whole party of 
20 men, with the requisite number of polers. Our few possessions 
were put on board, and we were soon floating down the Giti river 
on our way to the Muda. The Baling river, which I have previ- 
ously mentioned, is a minor stream which joins the Giti near the 
town. The latter river winds in the most picturesque manner 
round the base of Gunong Wang, at the gigantic cliffs of which 
we gazed up as we passed. All these limestone mountains abound 
in caves, the homes of bats and of the swallows which furnish the 
edible bird’s nests of Chinese commerce. Gunong Wang is honey- 
comed with caves, and so are Gunong Geriyang* (commonly 
known as the “Elephant” mountain) near the Kedah capital, 
and Gunong Pondoh and others in Perak. It is only on the crags 
and peaks of mountains of this formation that the kambing gurun 
(“wild goat”) is found. It is as shy and active as the chamois, 
and rarely falls into the hands of the Malays. I have, however, 
seen specimens of the horns in Perak, and Colonel Low mentions 
having seen a live one on the very mountain which I was passing. 
* Geriyang, “the mountain of the Divinity,’’ from gir’ (Sansk. ), a 
mountain, and Ayang, godhead or divinity in the ancient religion of the 
Javanese and Malays. So Chenderiang, the name of a river and district 
in Perak, is derived from chandra (Sansk.), the moon, and hyang. 
Other Malay words of similar derivation are kuyangan, the heavens, 
(ka-byangan, of or belonging to the deities) and sembahyang, to pray 
(from sembah, to pay homage, and hyang ). 
+ “I observed one of these animals far above my head standing on 
the point of the perpendicular limestone rock of Khow Wong near the 
frontier of Patani.’”’ Colonel Low. Journal Indian Archipelago, ITI., 
23 (1849). : 
