399 THE OLD KEDAH-PATANI TRADE ROUTE. 
Crossing the river at this point the route follows the right 
bank of the ‘Padang Terap stream sometimes approaching within a 
stone’s throw of the river and at others diverging from it to a 
depth of half a mile or more owing to the sinuous nature of its 
course. The country is open and “roughly cultivated by Malays 
who have planted sporadic groves of coconut durian and other trees 
whilst themselves living near the banks of the main river and 
planting rice wherever the configuration of the ground admits. 
The first kampong of any importance is Bélimbing after which 
at about the third mile a range of low hills called Bukit Képah is 
encountered which have to be skirted before emerging on the plain 
of Padang Térap which used to be the site of the headquarters of 
the district until they were moved to Kuala Nérane some eight 
years ago. 
The path now crosses the Sungei Sari a small shallow stream 
which descends from the region of the mines at Pintu Wang and 
touching the outskirts of the villages of Padang Chénerai, Poka 
and Péring leads to the kampong of Padang Sanai where there 1s 
a Police Station on the banks of the river. 
The distance from Kuala Nérang to Padang Sanai is roughly 
ten miles and the traveller who wishes to do so may return from 
here to Kuala Nérang by perahu being poled down stream in twice 
the time which it takes to walk. 
Leaving Padang Sanai the way at the end of a mile passes 
through the village of Péngkalan Pa Tanai where there is a Siamese 
wat of bamboo construction and then fording the main stream 
which is by now only a very clear burn running swiftly over a bed 
of shinning black boulders and pebbles strikes for Kuala Seraya 
where there is a moribund Quarantine Station with a solitary 
Malay in charge and an already defunct Police Station. 
The distance of 3 miles between Padang Sanai and Kuala 
Séraya consists of a stretch of flat open and almost park lke land 
dotted with young trees of no great height, but after this the coun- 
try becomes more thickly wooded and its surface is broken into 
ridges whilst the path follows the parent stream more closely and 
every now and then descends into it and emerges on the further 
bank only to cross the sector of a bend and dip into the stream 
again. 
At Kuala Séraya the stream divides the left hand branch pro- 
ceeding N. W. to Kampong Séraya 3 miles distant which is a large 
village of some sixty Malay houses, whilst the main stream con- 
tinues on to Kampong Durian Burong which is at a lke distance 
from Kuala Seraya. 
Benween the Quarantine Station at Kuala Sérava and the vil- 
lage of Durian Burong which is a Malay village of 2:10 houses stand- 
ing pleasantly in rice fields and groves of coconut and betelnut 
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