PEEAK TO SLIM. 03 



The Toh Muda had brought me a boat, so at 2 p.m. I started. 

 The boat was a dug out, and would only hold my own people, that 

 is, myself, Tunku Sulois*&, one Policeman, and two boatmen, five in 

 all, and then there was not an inch of the boat out of the water. 



The river is most lovely, a beautiful, clear, rapid stream with 

 splendid jungle on both sides, and open enough to give glimpses of 

 the hills. 



At first it was very exciting and enjoyable, as every moment we 

 were shooting the rapids, and the boat was in danger of being upset, 

 but the drawbacks were great. In the first place no protection 

 against the sun, except an umbrella, which had to be taken down 

 continually as we went under trees, and which is always a nuisance 

 to hold, then nothing to sit upon except a tin biscuit-box, and 

 from that position not able to move, whilst it is constantly necessay 

 to look out that your head is not carried away as you go under a 

 half fallen tree ; then you have to get into the river and drag your 

 boat over a sunken log, and all this in a boat so crank that most 

 people would think many times before getting into it. 



However, on the whole we got on very well, and passed a sul- 

 phur spring a little way below Slim, the water of which, boiling, runs 

 into the Slim river. Just before 8 p. m. passed Kwala Ghiliting, 

 and for the next one and-a-half hours we never got far from 



Ghmong Tumang Batak. the river windiug round the foot of the 

 hill. 



At 1.30 p.m. we stopped for the night at Piong, at the house 

 of Tunku SuTAiS", a relation of Raja Ngah, who was very polite. 

 He is a Sumatra man, and has been to a Dutch school and with a 

 Dutch planter in Deli. Both he and Raja Ngah say Toh Sampuh 

 is a very good man, liked by every one, and they don't like the Toh 

 Muda. As far as I can see none of the people here like the Tunku 

 Penglima Besar, they said he had called them to Sungei Raya, but 

 they did not intend to go. 



14ith February. 



Up before daybreak, but did not get away till 8 a.m., as some 

 of Tunku St'LONn's relations eame to sec him. We reached Tanjong 



