5 JOURNEY ACROSS THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
succession of rapids with intervening stretches of smooth and 
broken water, the stream running through a gorge with steep 
hills always on the northern side and sometimes on both, 
magnificently wooded down to the water’s edge, the vemark- 
able Gaps tree being a special feature. The bed of the stream 
appeared to be sometimes of slate and sometimes of sandstone, 
the banks usually of the latter and a good soil. No river 
scenery in the Peninsula have I ever seen to compare with 
this in beauty, added to which the novelty of shooting a long 
succession of fairly steep rapids made the journey most en- 
joyable. 
At 9.15 a.m. we had to unload the rafts in order to shoot 
a considerable rapid called Jeram Méngalor. This was nego- 
tiated without accident, and passing a very curious fishing 
weir in the form of the letter W, constructed by Sakeis, we 
stopped for breakfast at 10.30 a.m., having descended sixty 
feet in a distance of about three anda half miles. We left 
again at 2 p.m., passed the mouths of several small tributaries, 
and reaching a long straggling hampong called Ulu Sungei at 
2.45 p.M., we tied up for the night at its lowest end named 
Sérébu, time 3.15 p.m., total distance, say, ten and a half 
miles. Unfortunately the man carrying the aneroid fell over- 
board from my raft and the instrument was damaged. We 
had to unload every raft and lift them one after another over 
an immense fallen tree, many similar obstructions being passed 
by lyimg down as the raft glided under one end. Altogether, 
without stoppages, we were five hours travelling and ten and a 
half miles is perhaps a low estimate of the distance, but it 
was carefully calculated, the compass directions being at the 
same time noted and shewing that the river winds consider- 
ably, the general direction being from N.E. to 8.H. 
At Sérébu I found the Panglima Muda awaiting me, and a 
hut prepared for our reception by the influence of Ton Baxar. 
The people are all very polite and friendly, but their minds 
are unsettled, owing to the late attempt of the Raja Muda 
Mansur to enter the country, and they don’t know whether 
my sympathies are with him or with the Yam Tian. We made 
a number of sketches during the day. 
Tuesday, 2\st April_—At midnight last night we had a 
thunderstorm followed by a heavy storm of rain, the first for 
