196 THE METALLIFEBOUS FORMATION OF THE PENINSULA, 



Nipa, a tributary of a large river the Sungei Triang tlience 

 to Sungei Kenlbus where both tin and gold are found, 

 thence to Jelei, a gold district. 



Striking off in a 1ST. ~N. E. direction to the Sungei Lui, a 

 tributary of the Pahang Eiver, gold is found in deep alluvial 

 deposits in large quantities, but the Bendahara of Pahang 

 will not allow Europeans to visit this place, and prevents the 

 Chinese from introducing machinery, so that the gold is 

 most imperfectly worked. The Malays in that district told 

 me, that they got gold at the bottom of wells, that were 

 dug, in bunches and nests ; and the gold, after the dirt is 

 crushed and washed in a rude way with pestle and mortar, 

 is brought up in a cocoanut shell and must be sold to the 

 Bendahara of Pahang. The market price, when I was in the 

 country, was §22 a bungkal, but the gold is frequently smug- 

 gled over the range into Selangor where the Chinese gold- 

 smiths give $32 a bunkel and in Singapore the same gold 

 ranes in price from §35 to $40 a bungkal. 



I have so far pointed out some of the gold and tin-mines 

 to the Eastward of the dividing range of the Peninsula, and 

 regarding the Westward side, I may say that the whole of 

 the flat country at the foot of the range is a rast broken 

 allurial deposit of tin some 250 miles in length and ranging 

 from one to 12 miles in width and again winding to the 

 Northwest to Tongkah and up to British Burmah. 



With respect to the gold on the Westward side of the 

 range, there are only two places to my knowledge that pro- 

 duce gold with the tin, namely Kan chin g in Selangor and 

 the Batang Padang District in Perak; that is that produce 

 gold in sufficient quantities, to ma Ice a profit on the expenses 

 of separating it from the tin. Returning to the gold mines of 

 Ulu Sungei Lui and proceeding in a straight line to Cape 

 Patani in a N. N. W. direction, the gold mines of Klian 

 Mas are crossed on the Sungei Lebih, which is a tributary of 

 the Kelantan Eiver, and on the same bearing some Galena 

 mines are in full working order on the Kelantan Eiver. 

 Gold and tin are known to exist in the interior of Trenggano, 

 but the protective policy ot the Trengano and Kelantan 

 rajas precludes the examination and proper working by 

 European machinery of the valuable deposits that have been 

 known to exist for so long. The Sultans of these countries 

 are afraid of the rajas and are completely in their power ; but 

 as they are tributary to Siam, and as the Siamese Kings are 



