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THREE iMONTHS IX PAHANG 
on the morning of the loth of August with ten days 
provisions. We had a very rough walk to our destination^ 
over a steep range, which Wan Hatiji told us was the only 
land route to Knala Ma hang, where we camped ahoul three 
o'clock. The last part of our journey followed the bed of 
the Mahung, and the game path along the side of the river had 
quite recently been used by a fair sized elephant. He 
appeared to have gone up towards the Ulu Neria which 
was the direction we intended to fuHow. 
We made a camp near Kuala Maliang and then patiently 
waited for the boat. I had brought food with me, but my 
bedding and clothes were with the other party. When the 
shades of evening commenced to fall and still no signs of 
the boat I began to get anxious. Darkness arrived but not 
the rest of the party, and then it started to rain. Everything 
got very wet-^our shelter was made of tiptts leaves only^ — and 
we had a most uncomfortable night. As soon as there was 
the slightest sign of dawn, AVan Hadji and one of the others 
went down the Sungei Neria to look for the missing boat. 
Finally it turned up about 9 o'clock, having had great trouble 
with the rapids, and subsequently in the Neria with logs 
and obstructions of every sort. It seemed to he useless 
to attempt to carrs* on our transport by river any further 
on this journey, ^tnd as the Keria was the only route which 
the boat could follow, and as Wan Hadji informed me it 
was very shallow above our camp, I had to alter our 
arrangements. Mat Linggi should stop at Kuala Mahang 
with the boat and half the rice and had orders to wait 
there until we sent back for more rice, or until he received 
other instructions. Mat Ling;^M is the only Malay I know 
who would have stopped here by himself, at a place which 
was strange to him, in a jungle which he had never visited 
before, which to his imagination probably held ghosts and 
jins against which his experience would avail him nothing. 
When we came to make up the loads I found that we 
could not take everything we wanted and I left most of 
my stores with the other half of the rice under Mat Linggi's 
care. In fact we only had about four days' provisions with us. 
Owing to the delay in the morning we only made a short 
journey that day, camping near Kuala Sadjah, which was 
a tributary of the Snngei Katiay, which was one half of 
the Sungei Neria. Where the Sungei Neria branches some 
distance above Kuala Mahang two new names have been 
given to the rivers, the right branch the Sungei Katiay, 
the left the Sungei Besar. It was up the former that we 
proposed to go to a spot known to Wan Hadji as Pamah 
