ON MINES AND MINERS IN KINTA, PERAK. O17 
Me-longga parit—Having lifted the stones out of the small 
race, to drive the sand containing ores down- 
stream. 
Me-raup.—The act of lifting the rich dirt into the palong 
with the dulang pe-raup in the process called 
mematong. 
Mé-riau.—A word meaning the same as me-landa. 
Me- -muput.—To smelt tin in the Chinese fashion (the same 
as puput). 
Naik-ka kélian.—(Lit. to go up toa mine). The universal 
expression, whatever may be the position of 
a mine, for going to a mine. 
Mengumbei.—To stir the dirt in the small race in order to 
break up lumps and liberate the stones. (In 
Chinese mining this is called me-lanchut.) 
Mengumbus.—To smelt tin in the Malay fashion. 
Mengumbus pelantar.—The same, keeping an account of the 
ladles of tin ores as they are put into the 
furnace (by this the reliefs at the bellows are 
reckoned). The account is kept by moving 
one of the tally sticks along a rattan line. 
Palong.—A sluice-box made of a tree split in half and hol- 
lowed out. Oneabouteight feet long is used 
in the process called mé-malong; the other, 
five feet long, is used in the process called 
pander. 
Pandet (memandei).—The final washing of the ores in the 
small palong. 
Panchur.—A spout of water falling from a height on toa 
platform on which is placed lumps of stiff 
clayey drift which it is desired to reduce; 
or a cascade falling over large stones 
amongst which are thrown lumps of clay 
for the same purpose. 
Panggul.—Small dams placed in the races to retain the rich 
dirt which is afterwards washed up in the 
long palong. 
