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riversi of the State — the Eumpeu and the Kwantau : ami m the large 
tributaries of the Pahati^— the Trianje:, the Semaiitan atifl the Lipisi 
The whole coast of Pahang is, like most of the East coast of . the 
Peninsula^ an almost viniuhabited forest : but it has the adTantage of 
a fine satidy shore, with numerous Ilu trees (Casnffrina l\iforca)i so 
that it is possible, and in tiie North-East monsoon not iincoramon, for 
long jouriiies to be Undertaken aloTig this natural road. Such a thing is 
nowhere possible (jn the West coast, with its matted jungle of raangrovea 
and its muddy foreshore. 
Inkahitants^ Prnductft, ^'C-^Vahan^ is far from being a populous 
eountry, even accordiug to the low standard of tlie Peninsula, but there 
arc a good many prosperous Maiay settlements, and not least m the 
extreme interior. In faet, tlie Biver Li pis, an upper feeder of the Pah an g, 
which flows down from the mountains of Flu Sel^iigor. as also the districts 
of Jelei and Temling, a little furtlier down tlie main stream, are said to be 
more thickly inhabited tlian any otiier part of the eountry. The Malays 
may be put at 50,000 for the whole of Pahang : the Chinese miners and 
shop-kcepei-s at 10,01)0 ; and the Sakei, who are lielievefl to be, numerous 
in the unexplored southern region, at Ji^OuO. The total is- thus some 
63,000 in all, or a population of about 7 to the equare mile; 
The chief importance of Pahang lies in its mineral wealth j its 
reputation for gidd anil tin combined being unrivalled, both for the 
metals'* wide-spread yield, their quantity, and their fiueuess. 
The principal gold raiucs are in the valley of the Pahang at Lipi^, 
Jelei, Semantan, and Luet ; gold is also found as far South as the Bori. 
There is also a mine of (jaleua on the Kwantau at Sungei Lembingi and 
tin is found throughout the country, both in the neighbourhood of the 
gold mines above mentioned, and in places like the River Triang and the 
lliver Bentong, where gold is not worked. 
Of the mineral " States, Pahang is, by the Malays, placed first, and 
KeMutan next to Pahang, and then Patdni ; all these, and these alone, 
have galena as well as gold and tin. Gold is found in Pahang ahnjsst 
exclusively in the central line of the State— at Paso on the BSra, at Lfiet, 
the Jelei, the K^^ku, the Lipis and its lijeder the Raub, &c. AThatever 
the explanation may be, it is worth notteiug here, as it has been noticed 
before, that the principal gold-workiugs of the Peninsula lie almost 
entirely along a not very wide line drav.Ti from Mounts Ophir and Seg3.mat 
(the southern limit of the auriferous chain) through the very heart of 
the Peninsula, to the Kalian Mas, or gold diggings, of PatHni and Tclepin 
in the North. The ))cst tin- workings of PaJiaug lie near the St-lAngor 
hills on the River Bentong, ai'd ni.'ar the f imous gold -workings at Jelei 
and Talum. Pahang tin is said to be the only tin on the East coast 
which can rival that of Perak and Sclangor in whiteness and pliatiey. 
The vegetable products are almost confined to rice and jungle pro- 
duce, Pahang is .said to grow sufficient rice for its own consumption, but, 
except the little required tor Jtll^jbn, it cannot, like KGlantan, export any. 
The ric« which is grown is mostly wet rice, and the buftalo is used here — 
