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a small hill comniandin^ it, fitands the well stock- 

 aded house of Rajah Alii, A small stream, call- 

 ed Pad as, that flows into ;he river about a cniar- 

 ter of a iriile further down, gives the name to this 

 place, Tlie river^ for several hundred yards both 

 above aud below Padas, was obstructed by lar^e 

 trees which had beec felled completely across itj 

 in addition to which, there was a formidable chc~ 

 veuuX'd^-frhciinm^ohtA of sharpened stakes bouiid 

 together, and extending from bank to bank. 



It is upon this [lart of the river, wliere the ob- 

 stacles are jjreatest, that the stockade prioci pally 

 bears. Notwithstanding that tlte trees had been 

 cm through here and there for the convenience of 

 passatre, aud that time had divp&ted them of their 

 branches, &c, for they had been felled against 

 the expected attack of the English in the first 

 Kanning expedition, the difficulties of passing 

 these barriers was extreme even in 1B32, although 

 two years had elapsed, and no enemy di^pured 

 the passage. The work retiected considerable 

 credit on the engineer, who happened to be no 

 less a personage than Lacsamana Kubib, or the 

 admiral of the Rumbow fleet of six boats, which 

 we have se^sn was lying oif Sim pang. 



About a mile and a quarter Irom Pad as, the 

 Simeen stream falls into the Penagie, and about 

 a mile up the tributary is situated the village of 

 the same name containing thirty seven houses* 

 Thin place belongs to Ruin bow, and is under the 

 authority of one of its Sookoos, viz: Bang.sa de 

 Baiang. About a quarter of a mile further up, 

 and situated on the right bank of the stream, is a 

 house and jetty called Pangkallang To Bandar, 



