KELANTAN AND GUNOTG TAHAN. 19 



heavily towards evening we had a rather bad time of it that 

 night, as the water came pouring down the hillside on the 

 ground that we slept upon I, myself, was lying on a few raised 

 sticks and was fairly well off ; but the Malays had been too lazy 

 to cut enough of these for themselves, and so had to sleep on 

 the ground on a few leaves, with the water runing in streams 

 under them. Next morning on starting we soon got into 

 rattan jungle again, and owing to the difficulty of getting 

 through this, we only got up another 1000' that day, camping 

 at night by the side of a small stream. As this seemed to be a 

 likely place for collecting purposes, I decided to make it my 

 headquarters for the time that we stayed on the mountains. 

 It took us two more days to cut a path to the top of the mountain, 

 the jungle being very dense and difficult to cut through. Every 

 afternoon it rained heavily, so that we always got drenched 

 before we could get back to camp ; and as the path we had cut 

 was only a very poor affair, we had to go bent double half of the 

 way on account of overhanging branches, and it was very 

 annoying to feel the water running from my cap down my neck, 

 finding its way down my back, and finally coming out of my 

 shoes. In the camp it was very cheerless too, in the evening, 

 there being only very few leaves suitable for making a roof 

 in the neighbourhood and consequently our shelter was very 

 small and badly made. From the top of the mountain, we saw 

 the village on the Aring river where I had stayed on my first trip, 

 and as that appeared to be the only place within measurable 

 distance from which we could obtain any food, I decided to send 

 some of my men there to get a fresh supply of provisions, as we 

 were running short of these. I told the men to follow the Relai 

 river, when they reached the foot of the mountain, until they 

 were clear of the hills, and then strike across country till they 

 reached the Aring, when they were to follow that stream till the 

 village was reached. There they were to buy provisions and 

 get some coolies to carry them back to us. I sent three men, and 

 when they left we had only provisions left us for another ten days ; 

 but by giving out short rations I hoped to get them to last until 

 the men could come back from the village. The rest of us stayed 

 up there collecting, and I found the best collecting ground to 

 be between 5000' to 7000', but we also went several times right up 



