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I made up my mind at Trolali that I would go this way, as I 

 should then see all the Slim river, and both upper and lower Slim, 

 and when I go to Bernam from Selangor I can go down the Beruarn 

 river. I must do it now, however, for I can't bear a shoe on my 

 foot and a day's walking through jungle, shoeless, is out of the ques- 

 tion. There is no boat here, so I have sent to the junction of the 

 rivers down below to try and get one ; if it comes I shall go at once, 

 as Raja Ja Asul says it will take me four or five days to reach the 

 Bernam river. 



I had a great durbar to-day. There came first one Raja No Air, 

 who lives at a kampong down the river called Piong. He is a 

 Sumatra man, and appeared very poor, but was as polite as poor. 



Then there came Raja Alt, a Pahang man, from Tanjong Blit, 

 otherwise known as Lower Slim, and after him the Datoh Muda (the 

 new Datoh appointed by Raja Noah # ), and the Toll Bandar, and last 

 of all came Toh Sampuh. 



Raja Ali and the Datoh had come ten miles, and the Toh. 

 Muda had made arrangements for a boat for me. 



Raja Ali formerly opened tin mines at Tanjong Blit and at 

 Ulu Slim, but they failed for want of money. Every one here seems 

 anxious to know about the taxes on the Bernam, and I set their 

 minds at rest about that. 



Toh Samplh, though he had been walking for the last two or 

 three days with the SaJceis on the hills between this and Trolah, 

 must be a very old man, for he has been Datoh of Slim for eight 

 generations of Sultans. 



He is evidently sore about Raja Noah appointing his successor, 

 and told me distinctly that it had been done without his wish or 

 knowledge, but he added " What is the use of being Datoh now when 

 everything is at sixes and sevens, and no one follows the good old 



* Alias Tunku Panglima Besar, not the Raja Ngah of the previous para- 

 graph. 



