4 JOURNEY ACROSS THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
direction. The journey was infinitely more trying than the 
14 miles to Kuala Géliting. Cur camp was a striking sight 
with its fires lighting up the various groups of Sakeis, Indians, 
Malays and Chinese under the huge overhanging granite rock 
surrounded by the impenetrable “gloom of virgin “forest, with 
the faint roar of the Briseh River rushing over its rocky bed 
fifty feet below. 
Saturday, 18th April——Left Sapor Batu at 6.49 a.m., and 
going still easterly, with the Briseh down in a gorge on our 
right, we continued the ascent till we crossed a cor nsiderable 
tributary of the Briseh named Jélitong Laper, height 1,646 
feet above the sea. Immediately afterwards we ascended a 
very steep hill, then followed a ridge and with longish ascents 
and short descents crossed in succession the following streams :— 
7.30 aM. S. Sapor Ibu, 1,826 feet, - 
7.40 a.m. S. SApor Anak, 1,886 feet, 
S. Sapor Manah, 
8. a.M. 8S. Sdpor Kayu Ara, 2,281 feet, 
the thermometer reading 77° F. Fifteen minutes’ walk 
brought us te Sapor Buluh at 8.30 a.m., height 2,550 feet 
above the sea, four miles from camp and eleven and-a-half miles 
from Kuala Gclitmg. ‘Temperature 75° FY. Here a hut had 
been built for us, but after a halt of 25 minutes to let the 
baggage come up, we pushed on again almost due East up a 
steep ridge, and, passing Batu Hidang at 9.10 ee elevation 
3,000 feet above sea, we reached Batu Gajah at 9.22; height 
3,100 fect 5 and the boundary between Pérak and Pahang at 
9.30 A.M. The anercid shewed that the gap was 2,554 feet 
-above Kuala Géliting and 3,150 feet above the sea. 
In a very tiny rill running West we traced the source ef the 
Briseh, and only a few feet on the other side was the first sign 
of a stream w hich, with eight others Ss runwing between a sue- 
cession of ipecnes jutting out from the main rang ee, forms, 
a littlelower down, the Sungei Sambilan—the mestnortherly of 
the three streams whi ich, united, are called the Lipis; the Lipis in 
‘its turn joming the Jélei w ith a more nor therly source, and, 
together, becoming the Pahang River. Looking into Pahe ang 
as one stands on the gap, a lotiy mountain of some 5,060 feet 
rises on the nght, this is Chunggang, while to the left towers 
