JOURNEY ACROSS THE MALAY PENINSULA. 3 
and that I should only have to wait there; so I wrote letters 
to several Pahang Chiefs—Tou Bakar of Buntu, Ton Kaya of 
Pénjum, and others—asking them to assist me with rafts, men 
and boats, and I gave these letters to Manrri Muna and Cur 
Wanpa to take over the next morning, having determined to 
wait a day at Kuala Géliting, The aneroid at 4.15 p.m., Ther- 
mometer 88° F., shewed a height of 296 feet above the sea. 
Thursday, 16th April——Messrs. Jones, Hitt and Woop- 
GATE went off early towards Trolah to return by Pandras and 
examine two alternative traces for the main-road through 
Pérak. They returned in the afternoon, and we determined 
that the trace already made crossing the Slim just below Kuala 
Géliting would be the best to adopt and the shortest. We 
spent our day in sketching and unpacking our stores from 
their boxes, as it was necessary to put them up in more man- 
ageable bundles in view of the difficult ground we had to 
travel over. 
triday, 17th Aprit—About thirty of our Malay coolies 
deserted before daylight, and this gave us a great deal of 
trouble, as we had not men enough to carry our baggage. By 
giving the Sikhs their kits to carry, we managed to get away 
at 8.15 a.m., with sixty-nine Malays and thirty-six Sakeis. 
Butner had fever and could not move. Hit, Jones and 
WoopGatt went back to the Ulu Bernam, and Giues, Lister 
and I set our faces due North for Ulu Shim. After four miles 
of an intensely hot and trying walk through hampongs and 
padi-fields, we reached Kuala Briseh, the junction of the Slim 
and Briseh Rivers, and here we left the Slim, still flowing 
North and South, while we turned sharp to the Hast, following 
the course of the Briseh. Three and a half miles of very stitf 
walking, first through burnt secondary growth and then up a 
steep ascent, brought us to a bathing place on the bank of the 
Briseh, 1,233 feet above the sea, thermometer 85°, where at 
11.45 we halted for breakfast. 
After a stay of two hours and a short further climb, we came 
to a curious overhanging rock called SApor Batu (the stone 
lean-to) above the right bank of the Briseh River. Here we 
determined to camp for the night, as our coolies said they 
could go no further. At a very low estimate, we made 7} 
miles to-day from Kuala Géliting in a North-East and easterly 
