MY VISIT TO KUAN 1NTAN. 141 



Early on the morning of the 8th June we walked up the 

 bed of theEndakfortwo miles toEantauPanjang. The riveris 

 vefcy badly fouled, and brings down stuff that ought never to be 

 allowed to escape into any river. In places the Endak is very 

 narrow with precipitous rocky sides, while elsewhere it widens 

 out. It is a very easy river to dam, and three or four dry stone 

 dams will, Vnderson thinks, keep back the heavy silt, which 

 would then fill up the wider portions of the river. But addition- 

 ally heavy silt should be retained up above at each mine. 



Above Rantau Panjang there are Chinese miners at Kota 

 Bunyi. 



We left Kuala Endak at 11 a.m. on the 8th June and 

 rode on elephants to Lapang Nenering — -the scene, in 1845, 

 of a battle between the men of Perak and Patani. 



There we stopped in some beautiful wide plains for lunch, 

 and found 48 Patani men, with 100 buffaloes, bound for Ipoh. 

 We journeyed on, crossing the watershed, and at 4 p.m. 

 camped at Berchang. On the 9th June we broke ciimp at 

 8 a.m. and reached Betong at 11.45 a.m. This is the head- 

 quarters of the Siamese District Officer or Amphur — Wan 

 Husein. He was hospitality itself to us. He gave us a roomy 

 house all tc ourselves, and we lunched and dined with him. 



At his pressing invitation we spent the next day, the 10th 

 June, at Betong and went out for a deer drive without success. 

 Wan Husein's wife brought out lunch and an excellent curry, 

 which we ate out of doors on the banks of the Kasinei river. 



On the 11th June we left Betong for the mines at Klian 

 Intan on elephants, Wan Husein accompanying us. We 

 travelled along an earth road for 14 miles. At 11.30 we 

 crossed the Samagaga Pass (watershed) into what is now Perak 

 territory. W T e crossed and recrossed the Sungei Kwa and 

 entered the Kroh plateau. This was the place chosen in anti- 

 cipation in 1883 by Sir Hugh Low for an Upper Perak Station. 

 It is about 1,500 feet above the sea — is cool, and there are few 

 mosquitoes. It has been extensively occupied in the past and 

 carries a not inconsiderable population now ; there is plenty 

 of good water. 



R, a. Soc., No, 54, 1909, 



