OCCASIONAL NOTES. 
EXPLORATION OF PAHANG. 
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Extract from a letter from Mr. W. Cameron to H. E. 
the Acting Governor (the Hon'ble Cecil C. Smtth, 
C.M.G.) dated 4th Septemder, 1885. 
I have had a very successful expedition this time, and 
think it is the most complete and comprehensive piece of 
exploring I have done yet, as well as one likely to lead to 
practical results. , | 
I have discovered Pahang to be a much larger territory 
than even I imagined, and I always knew it to be larger than 
was generally supposed. It impinges right up to the Ulu 
of the Kinta and the Raia close into Pérak just as it does at 
Ginting Bidei, and there is no intermediate nobody’s land, 
except that this portion is totally unknown even to the 
Pahangites or to any Malays. There is in this place a sort 
of central hill country, a sort of vortex in the mountains, 
where fora wide area we have gentle slopes and pamah 
(plateau) land, with rounded hills shut in all round by loftier 
ranges but which from the mean elevation of this vortex appear 
comparatively low, but the mean of the valley for many miles 
is 4,500 to 4,750 feet above sea level by aneroid. Streams of 
considerable size glide along easily from all around and go to 
feed one large stream eventually, and this is the Telom—the real 
Ulu of the Jélei. Tascended cue mountain at the N. E. corner 
