JOURNEY TO THE SUMMIT OF GUNONG BUBU. 



Gftmong Bubu is the most elevated mountain of the coast 

 range of the State of Perak. Its highest summit lies about 

 S. 17° E. of Thaipeug, distant, say, twenty miles as the crow 

 flies. It is one of the series of nearly detached groups of 

 mountains which form the coast-range, having their spurs 

 and longest axes generally in a N.N.E. and S.S.W. direction. 

 There is no record of any exploration of Gunong Bubu. It 

 is said that some Europeans have ascended it and made a col- 

 lection of plants, but what the Reverend Mr. Scortechini 

 and I saw of the flora, inclines us to think that some of 

 the adjacent and lower summits could only have been reached. 

 The mountain is not quite 5,600 feet high, but rendered very 

 inaccessible by precipices of granite 1,000 feet high, which 

 bar most of the spurs. At the request of Sir Hugh Low, I 

 undertook its exploration, accompanied by the Revd. B. Scor- 

 techini as botanist, and Mr. C. F. Bozzolo, w T ho had charge or 

 the Malays carrying our baggage. We started from the 

 mountain garden at Arang Para, which is about 3,000 feet 

 above sea level — not a good point of departure, as we had to 

 descend and then climb up again over several very steep 

 spurs before we could reach even the foot of the range. The 

 following is the journal. 



May 20, 1884. — Started from the mountain garden at 9 

 a.m. on a course due south, descending a very steep slope along 

 a mountain track used by Chinese sawyers. It soon began 

 to rain heavily, which made the steep path so slippery that 



