JOURNEY ACROSS THE MALAY PENINSULA. 9 
three months here. We seem to have brought it over with us, 
for the night before we could see it raining at Batu Gajah 
though it did not reach us. We have reason to be specially 
thankful for the fine weather we have had. Our journey 
across the hills would have been a very different matter in 
wet weather, many of the streams are unfordable in the rains, 
and though we might have made a very much more rapid 
descent from Batu Gajah, it would probably not have been on 
our feet. Two of the twelve Bernam men we were obliged to 
bring to help toman the rafts showed signs of cholera yesterday ; 
one is better, but the other worse this morning, and neither is 
fit for work. Left Sérébu at 7.15 a.m., and passed a rock 
called Batu Rimau. This is supposed to be a petrified tiger, his 
body only, his head is said to be in Jélei. At 8.20 a.m. we reached 
Kuala Sungei Che Nek; gold is found in the Ulu of this river. 
At 9 a.M. we shot the Jeram Ménangis (“ the rapid of tears ”’), 
and shortly after the Jeram Maalim, a considerable drop in 
the river. At 9.25 a.m. reached Batu Tdlam, and there met 
Haji Busar, my messenger, in a small boat with a letter from 
the Yam Tian, saying, he feared I should find the journey 
over the hills a difficult one, but that he had sent orders to all 
the headmen to assist me. At 9.45 a.m. stopped for breakfast, 
and leaving again at noon reached Kuala Trisang at 2 p.m. 
Sending cn the other rafts, we landed here and walked to a 
spot a mile distant where some twenty Chinese are mining for 
gold. About a quarter of an acre has been worked out by pre- 
vious miners, who are said to have got 54 katis from a hole 60 
feet in diameter, but left owing to a poll tax of $8 a head 
being imposed, and the present men have only just begun 
stripping ; one of them washed a basin of already once washed 
earth and obtained from it a few grains of gold. The spot is 
thirty feet above Kuala Trasang and is Hence by crossing 
higher ground. 
Returned to Kuala Trasang and started again at 3.40 p.m 
getting ourselves and most of our effects drenched by a very 
heavy storm of rain. Arrived at Kuala Sémantan at 4.30 P.M., 
and there tied up for the night. 
I have ascertained that the following are the prices of cer- 
tain commodities sold at Pénjum, where the U/u people have 
their nearest market. These prices are due to the fact that 
