66 A JOURNEY ON FOOT TO THE PATANI FRONTIER. 
the junction of the two rivers is reached ; snags were still nume- 
rous and repeated bumps warned us that the boatmen had reason 
on their side in representing that there was danger to a large boat 
proceeding down the river by night. The poler who stood in the 
bow directing the boat’s course solemnly disclaimed all responsi- 
bility and declared that he could see nothing ahead and could not 
therefore avoid obstacles. Still we proceeded and were rewarded 
at last about 9 p.m. by quitting the tortuous and timber-choked 
Giti for the broad, smoothly-flowing Muda. The tired boatmen 
were now permitted to le down and rest, the poles were laid aside, 
and half a dozen of my own men took up the paddles. We pad- 
dled all night, and before daylight on the 15th, landed at Pangka- 
lam Bongoh in Province Wellesley, in British territory once more. 
A few words are wanting to compiete the narrative. The expe- 
dition, though it failed in its primary object-—the surprise and 
capture of Maharaja Lrta—was not altogether barren of result. 
The man Tuan, who, it has already been mentioned, had been 
taken to Salama as a captive of their bow and spear by CHE 
Kariu’s followers, had been sent down to Province Wellesley with 
other slaves at the request of the Licutenant-Governor of Penang. 
The latter had interfered in the interests of humanity to free 
these captives from slavery, but no one suspected that one of them 
was the person for whom a reward of $3,000 had been offered es 
one of the principal actors in the tragedy of Pasir Sala. In anti- 
cipation of this, and acting on the information which I had obtain- 
ed at Lunggong, I had brought with me to Province Wellesley the 
Patani Penghulu Dotan, who, when confronted with Tuan, identi- 
fied him at once. He was eventually tried with the other prisoners 
and condemned to death, but reprieved on the ground of weakness 
of intellect. 
The detachment of twenty men whom I left behind at Ken- 
drong, occupied the house which our arrival had compelled Maha- 
raja Leta to quit, and their presence effectually prevented his 
return to the right bank of the Perak river. There was no safety 
for him in Patani, for Tuan Prang and other chiefs to whom I had 
applied for assistance were now afraid to harbour him. He was, 
