JOURNEY ACROSS THE MALAY PENINSULA. 5 
a higher mountain named Kabut. These are on the true back- 
bone of the Peninsula, which here runs very nearly due North 
and South, while on either side jut out spurs more or less at 
right angles to the main range—eastward into Pahang and 
westward into Pérak. These spurs extend, as a rule, for about 
six miles on each side of the backbone. 
Without halting at the summit, we immediately began the 
descent into Pahang, and, just as we had ascended a long, nar- 
row, gradually rising ridge called Ganong Télaga with the 
Briseh River flowing down its southern base, so we descended 
the longest of many easterly-ranning ridges, the Sungei Sam- 
bilan flowing West with a slight trend to the North along its 
southern base, but the descent into Pahang was decidedly 
steeper than that into Pérak, and after 30 minutes’ walk we 
crossed one of the nine streams that form the Sambilan, and 
found we had come down 660 feet. 
The soil on both sides was only moderate, studded all over 
with the most gigantic granite boulders I have ever seen in 
the Peninsula. 
On the Pérak side, I noticed many dry watercourses full of 
large granite blocks. In those the water may be subterrane- 
ous, aS it is on the slopes of Ginting Bidei in Sélangor, but 
more probably the lone drought accounts for the absence of 
water. On the whole, ! have never seen a range better watered 
than this one, and it is only surprising that the Slim is not a 
Lge river. At 24 miles from the boundary and a height of 
210 feet above the sea, we brea kiasted by the bank of the 
conldiina road and river bearing 7° North of East. 
At 12.37 P.M. we resumed our journey, and at 1.80 P.M. 
reached a spot on the river called Saneka Dua, where twu 
branches of the river meet again after dividing and forming a 
large island. Height above sea 1,740 feet. ‘Thermometer 
62° F. At 1.85 p.m. crossed the river again, but here it is 
named the Kéncr, and has, the natives say, already received the 
waters of the two branches, viz., the true Lipis, which rises 
from the western side of Guncng Témang Batak Gn which 
lull the Sungei Géliting takes its rise and flows westward), 
and the Tébalak, rising from a mountain further South, in 
which the Bernam River is said to have its source. The Kénor 
is now a considerable stream, and crossing it (1,564 feet above 
