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ney. Whether there was a flood in the river or not, the beauty 

 of the rocks and precipices in the wild forest could not be 

 surpassed. We had to descend by a series of zigzags crossing 

 the successive cascades on logs sometimes at a considerable 

 height above the water. If ever the romance of a lovely view 

 was destroyed by the perils of a journey, it was here. We 

 had to cross fifteen of these aerial bridges. Some were nar- 

 row and some were half rotten, and all were over cascades 

 where the slightest slip was certain destruction. In the lower 

 part of the stream we had to ford the water, which was just 

 fordable and no more. I consider that it was quite wonderful 

 that this part of our journey was accomplished without accident, 

 which, however, was only effected by constant care and much 

 delay. We arrived at Lady Weld's rest-house on the Kuala 

 Kangsa Road on the evening of the last day of the month 

 the most of which had been spent in the jungle, and none the 

 worse for our sojourn away from civilization, except in the 

 innumerable leech-bites from which we all suffered. - 



J. E. TENISON- WOODS. 



Note. — Amongst the fishes of the Kenas there was a small 

 specimen of what I took to be Opluocephalus micropeltvs, but 

 the species is doubtful. The barbel may have been B. kolus. 



Since our journey, the mountain has been again ascended by 

 Mr. Cantley, the Government Botanist, who obtained a good 

 collection of plants. 



