1 16 A jour:^ey in johore. 



1 started from tliat place about ten 

 o'clock; uothinfT else remarkable occured 

 on tliat day; only 1 was informed that near 

 the river of Raiiiang are tlie remains of an 

 ancient fort; but I did not visit tbe place. 

 About six o'clock, 1 stopped to rest; 1 slept 

 in the boat, and, as there was no place for 

 a second person , my men went to sleep in 

 a house on the right bank of the river. 



On the 8th, we could make but a few 

 miles, the river being tiien obstructed by a 

 great quantity of fallen trees. My men were 

 often obliged with great trouble to cut tlie 

 trees and then' branches when lying across 

 the river, or to take up the boat to make 

 it pass over the large pieces of wood they 

 could not cut : this was somewhat danger- 

 ous on account of tbe depth of the river. 

 At sunset 1 stopped in a desert place; ray 

 men slept under a tree near tiie river on 

 the left bank, anfl I passed tlie night in 

 the boat. 



