OCCASIONAL NOTES. 157 
(upper reaches) being unknown, as well as the Penoh which is 
an anak (tributary) of the Kinta. I crossed a mountain by a pass 
5,300 feet by aneroid lying exactly at the Uluof the Kinta, 
Penoh and Telom. This I have called Gunho Pass. I took the 
elephants over with me, explored this new country and followed 
the Telom till I got to within a day’s sail of the place where it 
joins the Jélei. Long ere this all our stores but rice had been 
exhausted, so for the purpose of obtaining supplies, and also be- 
cause a rumour had got abroad in Pahang that I was a musoh 
(enemy) with forty elephants and four hundred men come dowp 
to harry and to raid, I had to reassure the authorities: I went 
down to the Toh Kaya’s and to Pénjum by sampan, then back 
again and then crossed southerly all the rivers of Upper Pahang, 
keeping close to the foot of the main ranges, and coming out 
over mountains 5,000 feet high at the Ulu of a tributary of 
the Slim, and thence on to Bernam. 
I have reason to thank the Great Master that I was ena- 
bled under his protection to bring my men back alive, although 
I cannot say well, for I on several occasions had great reason 
to be alarmed and feared some would succumb ; there are seve- 
ral of them now under treatment, and one I left in the hospital 
at Penang. 
The elephants, I am happy to say, notwithstanding the 
unprecedented fatigue, are well and in fair conduton. By this 
time they will be pretty strong, for I left them at the Ulu of 
Sungkei to feed and rest eight days ago, and they will soon be 
in good condition. I am starting the relief party back again 
to-day by way of the Pérak river and Batu Gajah and I pro- 
_ pose taking a run down to Singapore for a day to get some 
outfit which cannot be procured here, when I shail do myself 
the honour of calling on you, but I must start my party first 
and I will meet them at the Bernam almost as soon as they 
can get there, as we are taking an additional elephant. 
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