MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES. ZZi 



From where we stood we could see the opposite side of the 

 valley below us to the east almost completely covered by old 

 Sakei ladangs, which quite bears out what I had been previ- 

 ously told, but did not credit, that there are fully 700 of these 

 people living there. 



I here again noticed a fact which attracted my attention 

 when up the Kinta valley last August with the first coffee 

 explorers, — that the Sakei cultivation appears to he limited 

 to a height of between 300 or 400 feet up to -2,000 feet. Above 

 this latter height they appear scarcely ever to go. Possibly 

 this is the limit at which " padi" will thrive. Above this level 

 there are a large number of beautiful valleys, which both my 

 companions agreed were admirably suited for coffee cultiva- 

 tion, as far as site was concerned. 



Pabei Pass Rambau. 



{Overland route from Sungei Ujong to Malacca.) 



The following is extracted from the account given in the 

 Straits Times of the General Meeting held on the 7th September. 



" In hi* description of a Walk through Rambau, which w r e 

 give at length, as it is not likely to make its appearance in 

 the Society's Journal as a separate paper, Mr. Skinner 

 said : — There is a kind of understanding — an unwritten rule, 

 and I think a very wholesome rule — that no fresh paper should 

 be commenced after 9.30 r. M. It is now nearly 10, but the 

 Chairman seems to think that our programme should be com- 

 pleted ; and if the ladies and gentlemen present think so too, 

 this may be done without infringing the rule after all, for the 

 truth is I have no paper to read. 



"I merely propose to describe in a few words a journey I re- 

 cently made across the Pahei Pass, from Sri Menanti into 

 Rambau, and across that country into Malacca; which, for 

 some reason, no European ever happens to have made before ; 

 but which is in itself a tolerably easy walk of three days, and 

 by far the most direct route from Sri Menanti (and its neighbour- 

 hood, Ula Aluar, Gitnowj P(isir,andKioala PHa) into Malacca. 



" We started on horseback from Sungei Ujong, (where 1 had 

 gone by the usual River Linggi route,) and rode by a path 

 almost at right angles to the course afterwards taken as far as 

 Bukit Putus ; covering the distance of 9 or 10 miles before 

 breakfast, at a rate and over a road which allowed but little 

 time for reflection or observation. 



