NOTES ON A TRIP TO BUKIT ETAM, SELANGOR. 7 I 



The next morning we set the coolies to work again at the 

 clearings on the summit, while we followed up the course of 

 the stream which ran near our camp. The bed was full of 

 large boulders of granite, amongst which the stream eventually 

 disappeared about a quarter of a mile from the crest of the 

 ridge. I got some more orchids and two species of begonia 

 growing on the rocks in the stream. In the gully in which the 

 stream ran grew a very large species of Amomum, the fronds 

 of which were 25 or 30 feet long, but I obtained no flowers 

 of it. 



By the evening the coolies had made a sufficient clearing 

 to enable us to get a good view of Gunong Besar and Gunong 

 Hantu. The view from the summit was really magnificent, 

 extending over the whole of Selangor, a great part of Jelebu, 

 and part of Sungei Ujong. That night we slept at our new 

 camp, and w T ere glad of a log fire in the evening. Early the 

 next morning we started for Kwala Lumpur, walking the first 

 six miles, and then, meeting our ponies, riding to within nine 

 miles of Kwala Lumpur, where a dog-cart was waiting to 

 take us on. 



On the 15th January I started for a second visit to Bukit 

 Etam. This time with only a Chinese boy and a few coolies. 

 I slept, as before, at Ulu Langat for the first night. Having 

 a minimum thermometer with me I was able to take some 

 readings. At 8 p. m. on the night of the 15th, the tempera- 

 ture in the verandah of the Police Station was 68° Fahr. It 

 had been raining all the afternoon since 4 p. m. The follow- 

 ing morning the thermometer registered a temperature of 65 . 

 At 7 a. m. it was 72 . This time I walked the whole way, 

 stopping for an hour at the hot springs at Dusun Tuah, in the 

 hopes of taking some more specimens of Ornithoptera 

 Brookeana, but I only saw one, which I failed to secure. 



At the bank of one of the streams I had to cross, I got a 

 fair number of insects, including two specimens of Clerome 

 fannula, several Papilios, and Pieridoe. 



I reached the big hut at the Sakei clearings about 4 p. m. ; 

 my coolies about two hours later. They appeared not to be 

 accustomed to hill work, and were quite done up, although 



