AN UNEXPLORED CORNER OF PAHANG. / 
nearly flat country between Sungei Besi and Sungei Seran, as 
this mountain stands up as it were alone. Having seen all I 
wished to see in that locality, 1 came back to my camp at Kuala 
Wur, and had my boats and baggage taken below the Jeram, 
and there stayed the night. There was a rise of several feet in 
the river that night, and next day we came down to Kuala 
Besi at racing speed. doing in six hours, what it had taken us 
three days to go up. 
I stayed the night at the house of an old Malay friend 
named Johor, and_ sitting chatting with him far into the 
night, he gave me the details of a tragedy which happened in 
his younger days, which, had a Huropean been the chief actor, 
would have been cabled all over the world. Johor is now an 
old man, his wife is an old woman, and the two cnildren who as 
infants took an unconscious part in the tragedy I speak of, are 
now a fine young man and woman, the son recently married 
and the daughter about to be, but both Johor and _ his wife still 
carry on their bodies the marks of the affray of which I speak. 
It took place some 20 odd years ago, and Johor, his wife and 
two young children were at that time living at Kuala Seran, 
i. e., where the Telom and Seran, as | before explained, divide, 
and go in separate directions. 
It was just after the Perak war, and one day, Johor was 
sitting in his house preparing a quid of betel, his wife plait- 
ing a mat, and his two children sitting on the floor playing. 
Simultaneously two men appeared armed with spear and kris, 
one at the front and one at the back door. The one at the back 
door remained onthe ground, while tne one in front, mounted 
the three or four ladder-like steps into the house and made a 
vicious stab at Johor with his spear, which he in the act of rising 
managed to ward off. Failing in this the stranger reversed the 
spear, and dealt him a smashing blow across the head, with the 
heavy petaling wood handle. Half blinded by tbe blood which 
poured down over his face Johor seized the spear, and a 
desperate struggle ensued. Finding he could not wrench it 
away, the stranger drew his kris and tried to stab him, but he 
warded off the stabs as best he could with his arms, at the same 
time with his feet pushing the children away out of danger. 
