18 JOURNEY ACROSS THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
Jélei carries rather more water than the Lipis- Campeda for 
the nicht at Pulau Krinan at 5.30 p.m., having passed the fol- 
lowing hampongs during the day:—Bandar Lama, Kampong 
Pulau, Sémitong, Jéram Lana, Kuala Kéchau. 
Distance travelled to- day, ten miles; general direction N.N.H. 
Monday, 27th April. “Started before 6 a.m. and passing 
Changkong, where there is a longish rapid with but little fall 
in it but many rocks which make it difficult for boats to 
navigate, stopped just below at noon for breakfast. The 
river is here about 100 yards wide, that is, the bed of the 
stream from bank to bank. There were numerous tracks of 
decr onthesandspit where we lunched,and while we stayed there 
the carcase of a wild pig floated ne Leaving again at 
1.30 p.m. we camped for the night at Kuala Témélin, where 
the waters of that stream Join the combined Lipis and Jélei 
thus forming the Pahang River.* 
The Témélin, which, as I have said, comes from the North 
and rises in a mountain on the borders of Pahang and 
Trénggénu, is in width and body of water about the same size 
as the combined Lipis and Jélei, at least so it appears at th 
confluence, but it is a curious fact that neither the addition 
of the waters of the Jélei nor yet of the Témélin appears to make 
any immediate and pronounced difference in the width or 
depth of the Pahang River. The growth of the stream seems 
gradual, and, except at the actual points of junction, the recep- 
tion of the waters of the Jélei and Témélin, themselves large 
rivers, seems to have no more effect in widening or deepening 
the river than is made by the addition of the waters of any 
of those smaller tributaries the mouths of which we pass 
daily. It was 5 p.m. when we reached Kuala Témélin, 154 
feet above the sea, and with some difficulty I got here 
a few specimens of really excellent Malay pottery—ves- 
sels of various forms and designs for holding water. 
* This place is mentiond in Perak history, on the occasion of the marriage 
of the Raja Muda of Pahang with a Perak princess (cire, A.D. 1600), as the 
place at which the Perak ad Pahang envoys met. The Témélin is the river 
called Témbclang Rined in the Misa Malayu and in the Undang-undang ha 
Fiaja-an (code of laws) of Perak, Pahang and Johor. Sce No. 9 of this Journal, 
p. 101. ED. 
