JOURNEY ACROSS THE MALAY PENINSULA. 29 
ing them between three revolving circular. blocks of wood in 
juxtaposition on the same horizontal plane. At 9.30 a.m. 
Bikit Stnyum appeared directly astern of the boats, which were 
then dropping down a long straight reach of the river. Passing 
Pasir Mandi, one hundred feet above the sea, we stopped at 
Téluk Sintang at noon for breakfast. The river here cuts 
deeply into the right bank forming a bay and making the width 
of the stream at this pomt very considerable. 
The Bungau trees with their gorgeous purple flowers grow 
larger and more numerous as we descend the river, and the 
forest is everywhere strikingly beautiful. I saw a quantity of 
maiden-hair fern in the jungle to-day at our halting place, but 
it did not look like a new kind. 
Left Téluk Sintang at 1.50 p.m., passed Kudla Sémantan Ilir 
a little before 5 p.m., and reached Pulau Témerloh at 6 p.m. 
Camped here for the night. Pulau Témerloh, said to be half 
way between the Sultan’s place and Pénjum, is an extensive 
kampong, admirably situated on the right bank opposite to a 
large island which here divides the stream. 
Distance travelled to-day, twenty-one miles; general direc- 
tion, South. Distance from Kuala Bernam, 300 miles. 
Passed the following kampongs to-day :—Jénérak, Kuala 
Tékai, Lipat Kajang, Dor, Sanggang, Bintang, Tébing Tinggi, 
Balei Gantang and Bangau. 
Saturday, 2nd May.—-To-day the villages are larger, the 
river is wider though no deeper, and the banks are not quite so 
high. There must be a very considerable population of Malays 
settled on the banks of the Pahang, and its three large tribu- 
taries, of which the Jélei is undoubtedly the longest, and is pro- 
perly called by the Malays the parent stream. We left Témer- 
loh at 8a.M., and passed Gual, a large village on the left bank, 
at 9 a.M., reaching Triang, kampong and tributary stream, at 
10 a.M. ‘Triang is 88 feet above the sea. At Triang the river 
was very shallow, and twice we had to drag our boat over the 
sand. Breakfasted at Kuala Bra at noon, and leaving again at 
2.00 p.m., reached Kértau at 7 p.M., and camped there for the 
night. There is a hill called Bukit Kértau on the right bank, and 
the place at present is chiefly remarkable for the enormous 
extent of sand which stretches between the left bank and the 
channel of the river. Under the right bank, however, there 
