10 A SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO TEMENGOH. 
along the banks of the river, which entailed wading the whole 
or nearly the whole time up the stony bed of a rapid stream, 
which was pretty hard work, as I was still very unwell and 
lame. Messrs Robinson and Kloss managed to get the loan of an 
elephant from the Menkong of the village to fetch me back to 
Temengoh. It arrived overnight and I rode back onit on 
June 27. By this time four bamboo rafts had been made for 
our return and we started in these for Kuala Temengoh on the 
28th. There were few rapids on this part of the journey, the 
first being called “ Darat,” as an Anak Darat (a chief’s 
daughter) was said to have been drowned here by the over- 
setting of a raft. It was a pleasant mode of travelling and 
very picturesque. Near Kuala ‘'Temengoh we saw fresh tracks 
of a herd of wild elephants. Stopped at one place by the 
blocking of the stream with an old raft, we had an opportunity 
of collecting the pretty orchid Dendrobium hercoglossum in full 
flower and some other plants. We arrived at Kuala Temeng- 
oh about midday. One of the men was very ill with fever 
and in a serious state. We eventually got him to the hospital 
at Grit where he died inafew days. Inthe afternoon Amat 
and I rambled round Kuala Temengoh and collected. Next 
day the rafts which had been enlarged and improved by the 
addition of a roof to keep off the sun and by fixing steering 
paddles at each end, started down the Perak river: the old 
man on our raft which went first hurled a quid of betel to the 
spirits of the river with an invocation as we entered the nar- 
row water between the low black rocks which flank the 
stream. Mr. Birch has recently given in the journal an 
account of his passage through the falls on this route so there 
is no need for me to redescribe it. We got through without 
mishap of any kind. Shortly after we had started one of the 
coolies announced that he had seen the two elephants bringing 
up the remainder of our baggage left behind at Grit three 
weeks previously, in the village at Kuala Temengoh. By this 
time they had started for Temengoh, a quite useless journey 
now. As it had been considered unsafe to transmit our col- 
-lections by raft to Grit, we had left them under charge of some 
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