64 PERAK TO SLIM. 



Blit at 9.45 a.m.. and, finding the Toll Muda had not got us a better 

 boat, we went on at 11 a.m. 



The travelling is just the same as before, only painfully hot. 

 I should think this is a very good river for fly-fishing, it is just 

 like a Scotch trout stream, only there are not so many stones in it, but 

 hundreds of snags instead, that of course is rather against fishing, 

 but the river teams with fish, and I have seen them rising freely to 

 the natural fly, especially in the mornings and evenings. 



We reached Kwala Slim at 4.30 p.m. I should say it is 

 twenty miles from Tanjong Blit, and thirty from Slim. 



The Bernam river, which joins it here, is very much narrower, 

 and has only about half the body of water that the Slim river has. 



The combined streams form a fine river, broad and deep, but 

 full of snags. 



Seeing no traces of humanity anywhere, we stopped at 5.30 

 p.m. on a sand-spit to make a night of it in the jungle. I had 

 bought a kajang at Tanjong Blit and this we spread on sticks, put 

 a waterproof sheet underneath, and, as it was a beautiful night, we 

 should have been comfortable enough had it not been for the 

 mosquitoes and sand-Hies, swarms of the latter getting inside my 

 curtain and giving me no rest. My face, which alone w T as uncovered, 

 they bit savagely, and my forehead in the morning was like a plough- 

 ed field, all ridges and furrows. 



Our dinner, for we all dine alike, consisted, and has done 

 ever since I started, of rice and a fowl burnt on the cinders. It is 

 impossible to take a lot of things into the jungle, unless you have a 

 ■following of at least a dozen men, and amongst them a cook, and 

 that is simply a nuisance. 



loth February. 



Up again before daylight, and got away at 6 a.m. We have 

 only one paddle and one pole, the latter useless now the river is so 

 deep ; the current, however, is very swift, so we make good travelling. 

 I never saw anything like the numbers of elephant tracks here, 



