16 JOURNEY ACROSS THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
till 9.30 p.m., and after that the Orang Kaya and Cue Au, 
who had been sent by the Yam Tiian and received me with the 
utmost cordiality, came in for a talk. I told the Orang Kaya I 
wished to go on as soon as possible, but he said there was a 
difficulty about boats and we could not get on to-morrow; after 
he had left, I received a message from Cuu Att to say that the 
Orang Kaya had not complied with the orders he received 
from the Sultan, and that the boats ought to have been ready. 
Saturday, 25th April—Cue Wan Da, who brought over my 
letter to the Orang Kaya and has been very useful, came to tell 
me he would now return to his place. He told me there was 
a large gold mine called Jali, worked by Chinese, an hour’s 
walk from here. I thought of going to see it, but found the 
journey would be useless as they were only stripping. I 
understand they are working the side of a hill. It is an old 
mine and has yielded good results in past times. I heard from 
the Chinese that there is plenty of gold in the country, but no 
one can live here owing to the injustice, “ squeezing,’ and 
want of government. They say whenever any one gets gold 
it is taken from him on some pretext or other, and that very 
few Chinese are now left in the place. If a man gets ona 
good mine, some chief claims it, work is stopped and not re- 
sumed, and the result is that the country is in a very bad 
state at the present time. A friend of Raja Ismain’s told me 
that only about twenty Chinese had worked for him at Raub, 
and then in a very erratic and perfunctory way, sometimes 
stopping work altogether for months, even for a year, from 
want of capital. 
Spent the day in writing and making a sketch of Pénjum 
from across the river. This place is 210 feet above sea level. 
Sunday, 26th April.—_I had begged that the boats might be 
ready for us at 6 a.M., but was disappointed. In spite of the 
Yam Ttan’s letter, there were only two large boats and asmall 
one ready for our party of twenty-five, Wan ALI giving me 
the best part of his boat. We put the servants into the small 
boat, Giues and Lister went in the large one, and a number of 
Sikhs in the other large boat, but finding it leaked, we had to 
move them into a boat which providentially arrived at that 
moment sent by the Imam Prang Gajah, with his son as 
ambassador, to meet us. Wan At was exceedingly angry 
