16 KELANTAN AND GUNONG TAHAN. 



Tulang Rabong range, and reached a height of 2500', but had to 

 descend again on the other side, as a river had to be crossed 

 which proved to be a branch of the Tenom, which again is a 

 tributary of the large Pahang river. The descent was very 

 steep and very slippery from the rain and just as we reached 

 the river bed I slipped on a large boulder, and fell with great 

 force against a large root, hurting my right side very much, and 

 was unable to move for some time. I was afraid I should be 

 unable to continue the journey, and we had to camp there that 

 night, but next morning I felt much better and so we pushed on 

 for another two days, when we struck another of the Pahang 

 rivers, but whether this was another branch of the Tenom or 

 whether it was the Kechau I was unable to determine. It rose 

 near the top of Tulang Eabong, as I found out later by follow- 

 ing it up very nearly to its source, about 5000' up. We camped 

 at the only level place that we could find, about 1500' above 

 sea level, but at night after a heavy rain we were nearly routed 

 out of our camp by the river, which rose with startling sudden- 

 ness and nearly flooded us out. The roar of the water rushing 

 past us at a tremendous speed dashing against boulders and 

 over falls was something not to be easily forgotten, and made 

 sleep impossible that night. I decided to let most of my men 

 remain at this place, while I went back to Pulai to obtain a 

 fresh supply of provisions, but before doing so I ascended an- 

 other range of hills that ran paral^l with the river on the oppo- 

 site side, and reached a hight of 4500' from where I had a fine 

 view of Gunong Tahan. I thought it would take us 4 to 5 days 

 to reach the foot of it, and told my men to commence cutting 

 a path up to it while I was away, at Pulai. I then went back, 

 taking with me only two coolies, and walking hard for 2 J days 

 we reached Pulai. It proved very difficult to obtain sufficient 

 coolies at once, so I had to send 10 men off first, with pro- 

 visions for my men, while the headman of Pulai sent for the 

 Malays living farther down stream to come up and go with me. 

 Twelve days were lost in waiting for them, and when they at 

 lust arrived there Avere only 15 of them instead of 25 that I 

 wanted, but finding it useless to wait any longer I started off 

 with these men, taking as much provisions Avith us as they could 

 carry. These men came from the Ioav land down river and 



