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my legs. After ten o’clock our route took us up a very sharp 
incline and we had to pull ourselves up by roots. Some hornets 
(péenyéngat) attacked us and caused a stampede. One found 
‘Clifford’s nose and in a few minutes it was hke a full-blown rose. 
At 11.30 we reached the summit of Bukit Lada, which forms 
the divide between the Pertang on the Pahang side and the ulu 
Kkemaman of Trengganu. According to the aneroid the altitude 
was only 700 ft., but judging by our exertions I suggested that 
some correction was required. We then descended the other side 
to the Sungai Besar and on lower again to the Sungai Babi, which 
in turn brought us to the Sungai Pertang, where we camped for 
the night. Tt isa fair sized stream; but we were above the bamboo 
country and so could not make rafts. 
15TH Aprin. The path became a game track about five feet 
high through the jungle, following the course of the river down. 
We crossed and recrossed it no less than twenty-three times; by 
the afternoon the water was waist high; it was rather chilly work 
and still more so when it started to rain. We therefore stopped 
to camp. 
To get the palm leaf (bertan) collected and made into an atap 
as quickly as possible we had a competition, the Kuantan Malays 
and the Sakai versus Clifford’s servant from Pekan and mine, a 
Malay from Perak. The latter won easily. (I heard recently that 
this Perak Malay rose to be a District Officer under the Siamese in 
Kelantan, where eventually he died). We were cold and wet until 
Clifford remembered that it was the anniversary of his wedding- 
day and we sampled the brandy. 
We found bamboos a little way below us, with which we made 
our rafts. Wan Ismail and all our men except six were then sent 
home early next morning by the way we had come. 
16TH Aprit. Rafting down the river was a very pleasant 
change. The Pertang is a beautiful river with great deep pools, 
in which shafts of slate protrude, huge ngram trees overhanging 
the water. Our troubles however soon began. We struck a ‘log- 
jam consisting of great trees piled twenty feet high and some 
hundred feet long , brought down by floods. Most of ‘them seemed 
to have been fenc some time. ‘The rock in the river here seemed 
to be granite (possibly Tembiling schist). The rafts had to. be 
‘dragged over this; many bamboos were split in the process and 
had to be replaced. Just below we came to the Tekal River and 
we camped for the night at the junction of the two rivers. 
17ru Aprit. The Tekal was a fine stream here, made the 
more imposing by a big rapid known as the “Jeram Jerami.” 
This gave me my first taste of shooting rapids, and an exciting 
game it is too, when no one with you knows the rapids! This 
“particular rapid ended in a steepish drop, which tilted the rafts 
almost upon end. However we negotiated it successfully. As we 
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