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It is true that no such stream was known of in Mr. Logan's 

 time (see Indian Archipelago Journal I. page 247 ; but a hint 

 of it — though given unconsciously — may perhaps he traced in 

 Mr. Logan's reference to S. Ginta vol. II. p. 123). It was 

 Mr. Daly's account of his journey (1875) from Muar to 

 Pahang, published in 1877, that first brought evidence to sup- 

 port such an hypothesis; for he intimated that the northern 

 branch, which joined Pahang at Kwdla Berd, was an even 

 larger stream than the one he himself descended from the south. 

 Unfortunately the " tracing" of his route, which was embodied 

 in the Map (1876). omits to show the junction of any such 

 northern branch; and it is only within the last year that the 

 hypothesis has been really confirmed to some extent by the 

 publication of Mr. Mac I ay's account of his journey up the 

 Jelei; and the achievement of Baron Verboch last July, when 

 he crossed from Sungei Ujong into Jelebu, and thence down 

 into Jelei, on the eastern side of the Bernum watershed, by 

 the River Triang. 



The point can never be finally settled until the interior of 

 Perak, beyond Mount Robinson, shall have been crossed in a 

 south — easterly direction ; and an expedition is in fact about 

 to be despatched, under the auspices of Mr. Leech who ascended 

 Mount Robinson last year, to cross the still more eastern 

 Country, that lies between River Phis, a feeder of the Perak 

 in the Northern interior of that State, and River Slim, the 

 northern branch of 'the River Bernam, in the interior of Solan gor. 



The continuation of the Paper on the "Geography of the Pe- 

 ninsula," Parti of which (confined to its Cartography) appeared 

 in the last Journal, has under these circumstances been deferred 

 for the present. Fresh information is fast being obtained in 

 various quarters, and the most useful mode of dealing with it 

 at present will be to print shore detached notes of each import- 

 ant piece of work done in the way of exploring new country, 

 such as the four journeys above referred to. Two of these ( the 

 ascents of Gunong Blumut and Mount Robinson ) were new 

 ground even to the Malays themselves. The other two, (the 

 routes through Jelei and Pdbei Pass. in Rambau) though well 

 known to the Malays have not been hitherto made, or at any 

 rate described, by Europeans. Of the journey through Jglei, 

 from S. Ujong to Pahang, Baron Verboch has unfortunately 

 left us no account ; although it was undertaken expressly on 

 behalf of our Society. The Rambau journey was described 

 at the time before a General Meeting of the Society, as recorded 

 in the extract from the Straits Times which is printed below. 



