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JOURNEY ACROSS THE MALAY PENINSULA. ] 
Kuala Témélin is celebrated in Pahang for its earthenware, 
but like all natives far from a market, the potters keep no stock 
and make only what is ordered. | The shapes of the jars I got 
are all good, and the decoration, done with a sharp tool before 
the firing, is most artistic. Weordered some further specimens 
to be made, including incense-burners. 
Distance travelled to-day 214 miles ; general direction H.S.E. 
We passed, in the order in which they are given, the follow- 
ing small villages or clusters of huts on our journey to-day :— 
Pasir Sibau, Jer am Chékuas, Batu Gajah, Sungei Kénung, 
Rantau Panjang, Pulau Sa’amas, Sungei Chika, “Pulau Tém- 
banga, Changkat Glugor, Batu Papan. 
Tuesday, 23th April.—Got away at 5.30 a.m., and stopped 
for breakfast at Kangsa at 12.25 p.m. The temperature in my 
boat at noon was 93° and in the water of the river 98°. The 
thermometer stands at 95° in the boat every day at 2 p.m. and 
the excessive heat of Pahang strikes us all. We notice here 
that the people are decidedly darker than the Malays on the 
western side of the Peninsula, and those Malays who have come 
with us from Pérak complain especially of the great heat of 
the ground to bare feet when walking in the exposed fields 
which stretch inland from the river bauk. Unfortunately [ 
broke the thermometer to-day, but I do not think it could tell 
us much more than we have learnt already. 
Started again at 3.45 p.m., and reached Pulau Tawer at 4 p.m. 
Here we were met by the Imam Prang Indra Gajah, the Yam 
Tuan’s right-hand man in all matters connected with that part 
of the country which lies up-stream from Pulau Tawer. The 
Imam Prang gave us a most cordial reception | and, dragging 
me by the hand up the almost vertical bank (here twenty to 
twenty-five feet high), ushered us intoa comfortable hut, which 
we were informed had been constructed in a day. Our subse- 
quent proceedings, whether dressing, writing, eating or sleep- 
ing, seemed to be matters of the deepest interest to the large 
crowd of Malays who surrounded the place and never lost 
-sight of us fora moment. ‘Tou GAsan, who is a man of about 
forty, very thickset and dark, but full of laughter, informed 
me that he had JouL Wives, twenty-five children and nine 
grandchildren. He introduced his brother and a few of his 
male children, iad after seeing that we varie! nothing 
