NOTES ON A TRIP TO BUKIT ETAM, 

 SELANGOR. 



BY 



Lieut. H. j. KELSALL, r. e. 



N the ist of January, 1891, I started in company 

 with Mr. Lawder, District Officer at Kajang, for 

 a five days' trip in the jungle. Our destination was 

 Bukit Etam, situated about 25 miles due East of 

 Kwala Lumpur. By road the distance is about 

 30 miles. 



We reached as far as Ulu Langat, a native village about 

 13 miles from Kwala Lumpur, and slept there that night in the 

 Police Station, a room of which is set apart for the use of 

 travellers. Here we got eight or nine coolies to carry our 

 baggage. 



At 7.20 A.M. on the 2nd, we left Ulu Langat. We rode 

 the first 12 or 13 miles to the foot of the hill, there being a 

 good bridle-path, which had been made by Mr. LAWDER for 

 the use of the Resident a few weeks before. Previous to this 

 there had only been a foot-path through the jungle. The path 

 crosses the Langat River at Ulu Langat, and then runs more 

 or less parallel to the left bank of the river, passing for the 

 first two miles through second growth jungle, and now and 

 then crossing a stream by means of a rough bridge. The 

 jungle then becomes more dense, the ordinary lowland jungle, 

 with thick undergrowth, the most striking tree being the beauti- 

 fulred and orange Ixora, the "Jarum Jarum " of the Malays, 

 which here grows to a height of 25 or 30 feet. Three miles 

 from Ulu Langat a path branches off to the hot springs of 

 Dusun Tuah. There are five or six of these springs altogether, 



