58 vinxK to slim. 



both about the same size, and you look on as lovely a picture as 

 you can well imagine in such an outlandish spot. 



This place is the picture of rest and beauty ; there are some two 

 or three picturesque huts on the banks of the rivers, and right 

 opposite rise two steep hills forming the boundary between Perak 

 and Pahang. These bills, named Tumah Batak, are close by, and 

 rise abruptly from the water. 



Slim might almost be a village in Switzerland. 



"We reached this, after walking througb both rivers up to the 

 waist in water, at 1 p.m., after four and-a-half hours' hard walking, 

 I should say thirteen miles, from Trolah. 



The Datoh's house, we heard, was higher up the Slim river, and 

 as I had hurt my foot coming down the last hill, and could not 

 bear my shoes on, I took off shoes and socks and walked bare- 

 foot. 



After forty minutes 1 fast walking, almost all through bamboo 

 forest, and crossing the Slim river again, we reached the Datoh 

 Sampuh's house to find he had gone to the hills to see the orancj 

 SaTcei. 



The distance from Trolah to Toh Sampuh's house is altogether 

 over fifteen miles, and the total distance from Songkei to Slim 

 twenty-eight or twenty-nine miles, perhaps less. 



The Datoh's house was a miserable place and filthily dirty, with 

 half a dozen orang Sahei in it, so little clothed that the scantiness of 

 their apparel would have been less evident had it been entirely 

 absent. 



The men are above the average size of Malays, the women of 

 the ordinary height, their hair is not straight but fuzzy, and they 

 all, without distinction, wear a bamboo, about a foot long, through 

 their noses, and are afilicted with a fearful skin disease which 

 makes them loathesome to look at. 



