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At Perenggan, one of our runaway elephants, the one be- 

 longing to Eaja Harun, was feeding. It had been caught at 

 the Rest-house at Pineris, and the other two had been heard 

 of at Dusun Memalik. They were all evidently on their way 

 back home, but Eana was outpaced by the others, because she 

 had hobbles on her hind feet. 



It is a well-known fact that the ungka (Hylobates concolor) 

 and siamang {Hylobates syndactylus) inhabit different banks of 

 the Perak river : the former the true right bank and the latter 

 the true left bank. After a great battle they came to this sen- 

 sible arrangement on the two huge rocks about two miles above 

 Kuala Kendrong. It is evident that the treaty did not extend 

 to the higher reaches of the river, for in my journey I heard 

 the cry or song of the wah-wah (ungka) on both banks. I was 

 able to collect the seed beans of the beautiful creeping bauhinia, 

 which covers so many jungle trees with its scarlet and orange 

 blossoms. The Malays call it dedaup. Both banks have a 

 fine lily growing by the water's edge. The Malays give it the 

 somewhat generic name of pechah periyok. It has many beau- 

 tiful split white flowers on a long stalk. I collected a few 

 bulbs.* 



We left Perenggan at 12.20 and met the Assistant Peng- 

 hulu of Temengor coming up on a small raft to escort us. I 

 took him on my raft. After passing over eight more rapids, 

 we tied up at 3.15 p.m., to a sand bank opposite Sungei Ta-ar. 



On the 9th August — the seventh anniversary of the Coro- 

 nation of King Edward VII — we were off at 7.45 a.m. The 

 Datoh Sri Adika Raja had gone on in his raft an hour before 

 us, and by so doing saved us an hour's delay, for when we 

 arrived at Jeram Goring at 8.30, he had not yet finished cut- 

 ting away the overhanging branches on the left bank of the 

 river which make this rapid difficult to negotiate. It was a 

 fine rush through the water. Berkeley's raft stuck for two or 

 three minutes in the approach to it. I had two high shots at 

 pergani (the imperial pigeon), shot two grey hawks, saw a 



* Doubtless Crinum defixum, H. N. R. 

 R. A. Soc, No. 54, 1909. 



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