60 GEOGRAPHY. 



4( Got the boat cleared out, freshly caulked, and got galas 

 (poles), kajangs, and rudder, and floated her. She seems too 

 large tor the work, but "beggars etc." 



" August, I6tk. — Unable to persuade any one even to help us in 

 getting the boat under way, we started on our journey to 

 Pahang. The party consists of O'Brien, the three police and 

 myself — and provisions for 10 days, viz : rice, tea, a few tins of 

 sardines and powder and shot — relying upon shooting a few 

 pigeons now and then for fresh meat." 



" At starting from Kwala Jumpol had great difficulty in get- 

 ting the prahu over the sandy bars, and, though the distance 

 from the Kwala up the River Jumpol to the place where the 

 boats are taken overland at Penarri is only about 1 mile, we took 

 over three hours dragging the boat. It is a very narrow steam, 

 choked with fallen timber and sand banks overhanging with 

 the much dreaded thorn?, called " unas" by the Malays, that 

 resemble tigers' claws and tear everything they lay hold of. 

 Nearly all the time we were in the water dragging the boat 

 along." 



" On arriving at Penarri we took everything out of the boat 

 and carried the things across to the River Ilir Sereting, and in 



the evening ue managed to get fourteen men at ten cents a 



... 

 head to pull the boat across the dividing land from River Jum- 

 pol to River Ilir Sereting. I measured the distance from 

 one river to the other, — it is 21 chains or a little more than a 

 quarter of a mile; There is a rise of 25 feet from the river bed 

 up the first bank, and we were a long time pulling the heavy 

 boat up to the level land. Long bamboos were lashed to the 

 fore thwart of the boat and all hands hauled at the bamboos — 

 the knots on the bamboo giving good holding power. It was 

 a tine moonlight night and the excitable Malays worked with 

 a will, making a great noise. 



" When we had got the boat across, after two hours' work, and 

 safely deposited in the other river, I sent up a couple of rockets 

 to their great delight and paid them. Gave quinine to a great 

 many who had remittent fever and ague. 



" It is a great relief to have got so far, and away from the 

 Kwala Jumpol people who are foolish and suspicious from 

 ignorance, and who were threatening mischief. 



III. (From Vlu Pahang to Ulu Kelantau. A short Itinerary, 

 compiled from the note book kept by M. de Maelay, 1875.) 



