GEOGRAPHY. 59 



"We had just come out of a narrow valley, filled with dense 

 jungle and not very high hills on each side. Coming' out of this, 

 the valley now level and comparatively clear, widened out abrupt- 

 ly, so that it became an extensive plain. Close in front of us r 

 rather on the left, rose as it were straight out of a plain as level 

 a* the sea, a large rock, some SOU feet high, partly covered with 

 trees, partly bare rock in sheer precipices." 



" The rock itself is formed of limestone, and it is that curious 

 looking hill, commonly called Bukit Gantang which, when seen 

 from the sea, forms the chief land mark for entering the Larut 

 river. The only hill I have seen at all like it is " Elephant 

 Mount" in Kedah, and we could see that Gunong Pondok re- 

 sembles the mount, in the fact of its being 1 full of caves. On our 

 rig-ht was Bukit Berapit and this stretches away to the right, 

 in a range of gradually lessening 1 hills. Right in front of us, 

 a beautiful valley, some twenty miles long, almost all cultivated 

 or partly so, shut in the distance by the hills in the interior of 

 rerak." 



"February 14th at 11.45 a. in. we arrived within 150 yards 

 of our destination, only to find we were on the wrong side of 

 a wide and deep river. It is no use attempting- to argue a 

 point like this, so we undressed and swam across. The others 

 came up and had to go through the same performance. The 

 river we came across was the Kangsa, which here runs into 

 the Perak river, a stream about 200 yards broad; and we are 

 looking forward with considerable pleasure to a three days' 

 journey down it." 



II. (Extract from Mr. Daly's Journal during the crossing 

 from Ulu Jlfcar and Jampot to Paltang, IS 75. 



" I cannot get even one man to accompany us, although we 

 have offered very high wages, — so we are starting by ourselves. 

 This is a drawback to me, as I always like to get some man 

 who can give me the native names of rivers, hills, and kam- 

 pongs, wherever I go." 



" They say, as one of the objections to our going to Pahang, 

 that we cannot find our way through the lake ( Tassek Hera) 

 which we have to cross to strike again the stream that runs 

 into the Pahang river. I apprehend more difficulty in getting^ 

 the boat over the shoals and snags of the (c Ilir Sereting." 



" The Malays of this place won't go with us, as the}" say that 

 thev are sure to be killed by the u orang utan" ( wild men ) of 

 the" jungle of Pahang." 



