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the Malayan Peninsula, and who, during his 

 lifetime, selected this spot for the inhumation of 

 his remains. It is situated on the summit of 

 a steep mound near the bank of the riven and 

 having a small stream winding round its foot. 

 The structure has nothing peculiar in it» heing 

 built after the usual fashion of the Malayan Mus- 

 salmans ; it is about twenty yards long by two 

 broad, and is visited by most Mussulmans pass- 

 ing up the river, who repeat a prayer and offer 

 an oblation for the peace of the Mar hum. There 

 is neither date nor inscription on it, with the ex- 

 ception of a few sentences of the Koran, and the 

 names of some of the devotees which have been 

 rudely scrawled on it in charcoal. 



The salt water reaches up as high as Bukit 

 Makaniet, close to which is another hill, ealled 

 Bukit Tiga. Two or three miles higher up the 

 river on \u right bank, a wooden jetty, belonging 

 to Nakhodah Manil, indicates the entrance to 

 Pe mat tang Passir, a place which forms part of 

 the straggling village of I Jnggy, and consists of 

 about twepty six houses. The river here is not 

 above five or six yards broad, and beyond Teru- 

 sam, where the stream, which, higher up, has 

 been divided by a small island, again unites, it 

 becomes yet shoal er and more narrow, there not 

 being more than four feet water at half ebb. 

 The right branch, or that to the traveller's left 

 in ascending, is the one up which the boats usu- 

 ally proceed. 



On the left bank, a httle beyond Terusam, are 

 two landing places, the first of which is called 



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