The taking over from Siam of Part of 

 Reman or Rahman. 



By E. W. Birch, c.m.g. 



In the account of my visit to the Klian Intan Mines I 

 stated that my second visit was made by order of Sir John 

 Anderson, G.C.M.G., the High Commissioner for the Federated 

 Malay States, to take over under the Anglo- Siamese Treaty 

 that portion of Reman or Rahman which is now restored to 

 the State of Perak. 



I was accompanied by Hubert Berkeley, the long-time 

 District Officer of Upper Perak, whose intimate acquaintance 

 with almost everything animate and inanimate in those parts 

 made our journey very easy; by A. S. Jelf, of the Perak 

 Secretariat, who was of much use to me and from whose 

 writings I have freely quoted ; by the Orang Kaya Mentri, 

 one of the Four Great Chiefs of Perak, and by the Orang Kaya 

 Kaya Sri Adika Raja, one of the Eight Chiefs and the heredi- 

 tary Chieftain of the north of Perak. 



We took with us ten Indian Police to station at Klian 

 Intan and six Malay Police to station at Tasik. Inspector 

 Simpson went with us to place them in their stations. We 

 had 26 elephants and a large following. 



We left Grit on the 14th of July, 1909, and, by travelling 

 all day along the Kendrong river, we managed to reach Dusun 

 Pahit at a quarter to seven- in the evening. 



The next day we broke camp at 7 a.m. and. reached the 

 Rui river at 10.45. Fording the river twice we arrived at the 



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