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down stream and scud up additional provisions and bouts to briny down 

 the men aud collect ious. Accordingly I started about 5.45 with two 

 Pahaug Malays and my boy in our one remaining boat, which was 

 now very leaky and almost past service. We got badly swami>ed at 

 the tirst rapid and had to swim for it and dive for our belongings, but 

 after that we got on fairly well and reached Kuala Tenok at about 

 b\45 p.m. and camped there for the night. On the way we passed two 

 of the camps made by Mr. Wray's party on their descent, and saw several 

 pairs of the smaller Malay Fishing Eagk (PoUoaetus humid*) and 

 two large Otters. 



As soon as we got into camp it began to rain hard and continued 

 until dawu, so that we passed a very cheerless night, which was not 

 rendered more comfortable by the presence of a tiger in the immediate 

 vicinity, which, as the tracks showed next morning, had been regaling 

 itself on the fallen fruit of a wild mango (bachany). 



Next morning we had a rather exciting journey to Kuala Tahan, a* 

 the river was in heavy flood. We reached the Tembeling about 8 a.m.. 

 and there met Panglima Kakap organising the " relief expedition." 

 After arranging with him to send up twelve men in six boats and 

 a sufficiency of food, I changed into a rather larger boat and went on 

 down the Tembeling, stopping the night at Kampong Pasir Atas near 

 Kuala Atoh. 



On the 9tb August we got oft' early and, after stopping a few minutes 

 at Kuala Tembeling, went on up the Jelai, stopping for the night at 

 Pulau Duk Duk and reaching Kuala Lipis about noon on the 10th 

 August. 



After a few days' stay in Kuala Lipis, I returned to Kuala Tem- 

 beling, where the remainder of the party was met. A fortnight was 

 spent in making lowland collections ancTin obtaining anthropometrical 

 measurements of the local Malays, after which the whole party returned 

 to Kuala Lumpur, arriving there on the 6th September, after an absence 

 of nearly four months. 



PHYSICAL FEATURES. 



The southern side of the Tahan range, which was the only one we 

 examined, consists of two long ridges running approximately N.N.-E. 

 and N.N.-W., connected to the north by a central boss on which the 

 highest summit is situated. 



This face of the mountain is drained by two fairly large streams 

 the Jeku and the Tahan -which rise within a few yards of each other 

 on opposite sides of the main ridge and describing a wide sweep to the 

 west and east ultimately unite at Kuala Teku to form whal is after- 

 wards known as the TaJian_River. The route by which we ascended 

 the mountain was for the greater portion of its length on the water- 

 shed of these two streams, until we reach the base of the central 

 mountain, shown in plate C, when we ascended the shoulder on the 

 extreme left and then descended into fhe Teku valley. Until the 8th 



