14-0 MY VISIT TO KUAN INTAN. 



amuck (mcngamok) and killed a follower of Berkeley's, named 

 Lebei Awang, cutting at, and slightly wounding, two others. 

 He then ran on to Jong and gave himself up at a wedding 

 party, and was promptly secured and bound. Berkeley has 

 since learned that he started out with the intention of killing 

 him and me. 



He had made up his mind to cut us down if he found us 

 on foot alone, and if not to shoot us while the elephants were 

 being unloaded in camp, when, of course, a rifle or two would 

 be lying about. But at Krunei there was a short halt, and 

 the voice of Haji Brahim, calling out, " What are we waiting 

 for? " roused his maddened spirit to action. 



We camped at a village called Jong, picturesquely situated, 

 with the river on one side and rice fields behind, to bury Lebei 

 Awang, and the next day sent the murderer back to Grit. He 

 died that night immediately after his arrival. It was an awful 

 night with ceaseless rain : the wedding chorus went on through 

 the night intermittently, and, when it stopped, the murderer's 

 shouts filled up the intervals. 



The Rui flows through Jong and is quite as dirty and full 

 of silt as the Kinta river at Ipoh. 



We broke camp at 8 a.m. on the 7th June and rode on 

 elephants till 5.30 p.m. with only a short halt for lunch : the 

 going was bad, being through rocky broken country with some 

 plains. On one of these we crossed the line of the hundred 

 graves of the Perak Shahids (men killed in battle), who attack- 

 ed Patani and were cut down by Mengkong Delaha in 1846. 



Their graves are an interesting relic of the days when the 

 Northern Perak Chief (the Dato' Sri Adika Raja) in an attempt 

 to recover what he considered to belong to Perak — viz., the 

 mines at Klian Intan — came into conflict with the Reman 

 power. 



We camped at Kuala Endak. The Endak brings d^wn 

 the silt from the Reman mines. It flows northwards and 

 empties itself into the Sungei Kwa. The Kwa flows south- 

 wards and is clean as far as Kuala Endak. After that it is 

 fouled, and in turn flows into and fouls the Rui. 



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