GEOGIUPEY. *H 



I took about 69 to 70 hours to arrive at the river Tamvfang 

 up stream from Kwala Sungei Pahang. The journey was made 

 in a tolerably large Hat-bottomed boat, which four Malays pushed 

 forward with long' poles, two and two by turns. This kind of 

 transport, which I have met with here, in Johor, Kelantan 

 and almost all over the Malay Peninsula, is used partly on ac- 

 count of the slight depth, but chiehV because ot' the notable 

 force of the current. In this respect it has a gTeat advantage 

 over the oar, for each new push with the pole, holding' as it does 

 to the ground, hinders, or at least reduces to a minimum, the back- 

 ward flow of the current. If, under these circumstances, one 

 reckons the rate of advance at 1 to \\ miles per hour (which 

 reckoning in any case is not at all too high) then the distance 

 of Kwala Sungei Tamileng from the estuary of the Sungei 

 Pahang 1 (all bendings of the stream included) is about 70 to 80 

 English miles. Not far from the Kwala Tamileng I found the 

 river Pahang, though somewhat narrower than in its lower stream, 

 was about 40 fathoms wide, or about as broad as in its middle 

 course. At the mouth of the Tamileng on the right bank of 

 that river, lies an important village called Kampong Rok. Here 

 I found it necessary to transfer my rather large covered boat (in 

 which all my baggage, two servants and five Malays had found 

 room) into two small open canoes. 



The bed of the river Tamileng is, it must be allowed, in many 

 23laces rather narrow, and forms numerous rapids ( Jeram) ; whilst 

 in others, owing to the silting of the sand, the water is very 

 shallow. Following the course of the river Tamileng, we passed 

 the sixth rapid, and I reckoned that at this spot we were 250 feet 

 above the level of the sea. 



Near the sixth rapid, at the kampong of Penguin (xendong, I 

 noticed at some distance a remarkable mountain, which was 

 pointed out to me as Gunong Tahan. I believe that from here 

 the mountain oull be reached in 2 or -3 days. The bank of the 

 river Tamileng appeared to be tolerably well — peopled, mostly by 

 Malays, but I also remarked several Chinamen among them. 



The unexpected visit of an " orang puteh" never seen 

 here before, tilled the people with such misgivings that 

 they stood quite dumb, and to all questions that were put only 

 answered " tra tan" "banc ilaiang" or (< butum tan" It was 

 often difficult not to take people, who became thus suddenly 

 dumb, for regular "mikro kephalen." After I had followed 

 the Tamileng up its course for 22 hours, I came to the 



