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quantities of game that I should be able to find if I went 
up the Sat that I decided to take a trip up that river first and 
visit Piilau Besar later on. Awang All told us amongst other 
items uf sporting interest that np in the Ulii Sat near the 
Kelantan Border there was a very large salt lick which 
was always frequented by rhinoceri and that seladang and 
elephant were commonly 'to be found there. He also stated 
that seladang were constantly strat on the banks of the Sat, 
even (luring the davtime- But I did not swallow that. 
We talked on till quite late, and when Awanf^ Ah left 
he said that he would come along at da\ light on the morrow 
and would bring with him a couple of small boats, my 
boat beini? too big to negotiate the Sat which was very 
shallow in places, 
The following morning Awang Ali nrrived at eight o clock 
instead of davlight and brought with him, not the two small 
boats that he had promised, Imt an enormous fiat-bottomed 
scow " which he called a sampan. It was quite as big as my 
boat but much less handy. He had a long explanation to give 
concerning his inability to obtain the small boats, but when he 
informed mc that the Noah's Ark" was his own property 
I began to tumble to Mr, Awang Ali's line of thought. 
However I took his boat becanse I should have had to 
unship mv kadjang and transfer all the goods that I was 
leaving behind from mv boat to the house, and as it was 
already very late to make a start I did not want any further 
delav. 
^It was nine o'clock before we left Kuala Sat, old Mat 
Linggi remaining behind in charge of the boat and stores. 
But we sonn fr.und that we could not get far with Awang All's 
boat, and had to commandeer two small boats that we found 
about half a mile up the Sat. into which we transferred part of 
the stores and some of the men. I was not feeling very 
pleased with Awang Ali now. He had been so full of 
confidence about the arrangements he would make in the 
morning when he w-as eating my biscuits and drinking my tea 
the previous evening. 
The two boats which now formed part of my fleet were 
onlv called boats by courtesy; they leaked most abominably; 
they would only carry two men and about 50 lbs. of stores 
each, and one of them had no bow at all. I think that it 
must have been eaten bv white ants while its owner was 
contemplating repairing it, A word or two about the Ulu 
Tembelin? Malavs. Allevne Ireland in his book "The Far 
Eastern Tropics " has described in scathing terms the indol- 
ence of the Malay. Bnt he never visited Ulu Tembehng. 
