An Unexplored Corner of Pahang. 
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The Pahang River, as most people interested in Pahang 
affairs know, is the great artery which serves to keep Ulu 
Pahang in touch with the outer world. 
Up it in large numbers, pass the Malay and (of late) Chi- 
nese boats, laden with supplies for the shops of Kuala Lipis, 
Punjom and Silensing, machinery for the mines, and from time 
to time those Europeans, whose business takes them into the 
Ulu. ; 
From the main stream, branch off tributaries almost as large 
as the parent river, to the left the Semantan, up which most of 
the heavy stores and machinery for the mine and town of Raub 
passes, and which withits tributaries taps a large belt of country, 
including the Bentong tin bearing district. 
Two or three days farther poling and the Tembeling 
goes off to the right, at the Kuala of which is situated the 
grave of the late E. A. Wise, who was unfortunately killed in 
the attack on Jeram Ampai stockade. He was a young man 
of great promise, a favourite with both Europeans and natives, 
and adds one more to the list of bright young fellows who have 
died in foreign lands on her Majesty’s Service. 
It was up the Tembeling that Baron Miklucho Maklay, one 
of the earliest Pahang explorers, made his way over into Kelan- 
tan, and from there down the Kelantan River to Kota Bahru, 
the capital of Kelantan. ~. 
That gentleman, whom I had the pleasure of meeting many 
years azo in Queensland, devoted his life and large income to 
exploring, and making an ethnological collection. 
When I met him in Queensland, he was in quest of the 
skulls of a hairless tribe of natives, said to have been met with 
