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THE TKOPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [Sept. 1, 1902. 
accustomed to it, I have fished through the whole 
of a severe storm, and caught numbers notwith- 
slanding. On this occasion, however, 1 Avas using 
one of Hardy's cane rods, with a steel centre, and 
it was safer to lay it aside while the storm lasted. 
Just as it was getting dusl< I had a rise, and as 
T watched a long stretch of water for sometime 
they were rising again freely all over the water. 
" I now put on a small ' coachman ' fly, and 
fished till ib became dark, hut did not catch an- 
other fish. Those that were rising were apparently 
all small, and not worth taking. 
" Sleeping at the rest-house, I next morning 
went down to the larger water ahout four miles 
below. By nine o'clock I had taken two trout 
of one pound and fourteen ounces respectively. 
Kainbows were again provokingly to the fore, and 
I returned several of about eleven inches. One 
I killed accidentally, it being badly hooked and in- 
jured. Iheld it in the water tor some time, but it was 
beyond recovery. It had nice pink flesh, and 
proved very good eating. The brown trout seem 
to have here lost their pinkness of late years ; 
and they further seem decreasing in numbers. The 
reason for this may be that the fresh-water 
shrimps have decreased ; crabs, however, are still 
plentiful in all the streams, and, I think, are a 
great source of food. I have seen a trout taken 
with a crab in its mouth, too large for it to swal- 
low, and yet he managed to take a fly. Another 
had a frog half-way down its throat, the hind 
legs protruding out of its mouth at right angles, 
and yet this one also was greedy enough to take 
a fly. My best fish was a beautifully-marked 
yellow trout of two pounds, five ounces. 1 saw 
it some way below me in the deep water, swim- 
ming aimlessly about, and iiianaged to throw 
my fly just over its nose ; it at once took it, and 
after some play 1 got it safely into the landing- 
net. It proved to be a very thick female, in 
fine condition. 
" A little lower down in the same pool, which 
is a very large one, about fifty yards across 
and 200 yards long, I saw another large trout 
of about three pounds lying at the surface. Until 
I got closer, I could not make out what it was 
doing. It kept coming up, and taking the foam 
or bubbles which were floating down stream, 
niakine' a noise each time with its mouth some- 
thing like the word ' soup.' Thinking it might 
like something more substantial, I sent my fly 
above it, and drew it across almost close to his 
nose. The fly was immediately followed, but the 
fish failed to catch hold, and I could not induce 
him to come again. I landed another of about 
two and a lialf pounds in the next pool, with 
beautiful spots. He gave me some good sport, 
and I was decidedly pleased with my morning, 
so far. 
" Abont mid-day I began to retrace my steps 
towards the rest-house. On passing the large pool, 
some way up the hillside, I looked to see if the 
big trout was still playing with bubbles, and, 
sure enough, there he was. I tried to get behind 
him for a cast, hut he must have seen me coming, 
for he slowly sank and disappeared. I fished 
several likely places on my return walk, rose two 
nice fish, and hooked a lliird, which, however, 
managed to break away just as I was getting 
him near the landing-net. Above Baker's Falls, 
in a rocky pool, I secured my next fish, weighing 
about one and three-quarter pounds. At first I 
took it to be a raiabow, as he sprang out of the 
water several times, but he was too yellow, and, 
after a knock on the head, I found him to be a 
handsome golden fish with pink spots. 
"By this time the afternoon thunder was 
inmblinp;, and as I had still two miles to walk, 
I started for the rest-house. I was caught, how- 
ever, in one of the worst storms I would like to 
be out in. The roar of thunder was deafeuing, 
the lightniug uncomfortably near, and the rain 
fell with a violence which threw up spray from 
the water to the height of a foot or more. On 
reaching the rest-house I weighed my catch, and 
found the eight trout weigh exactly eleven pounds, 
I had returned to the water twenty-one rainbow, 
and five brown trout of eleven inciies and under. 
" Next morning I make an early start for the 
station, rather more than two miles across patna, 
down through two miles of jungle, a shoi t cut of 
the roughest kind. I reach the station jast as the 
train steams into it ; and two hours later I am at 
my bungalow ready for breakfast ; and as I think 
over the doings of the last forty-eight hours, I 
come to the decision that a take of thirty-fmir 
trout amid such scenery, such air, and with such 
exercise, is a pleasure not to be despised, and would 
compare not badly with some of my sport at home 
in the Highlands." G. G. R. C. 
PLANTING &c. IN THE MALAY STATES. 
From the Annual Report for the year 1901 on the 
Federated Malay States by the Resident-General 
(\V H Treacher, c.m.g.,) we make extracts: — 
European COFFEE planters (Liberiai)) have 
again been disappointed by thepoor prices ruling for 
that product, which were indeed lower than for tlie 
previous year— $18.29 per pikul against $20.89. 
Nevertheless, in Selangor and Negri Sembilan 
the E u-opean-owned estates are almost all in good 
order, there is a general improvement in the 
samjjle of coffee, and the planters are showing 
great determination to tide over the present long- 
continued crisis. The export of coffee for the year 
amonnted to 51,239 pikuls as compared with 44,763 
pikuls in 1900. 
The reports as to the successful growth of Para 
and Rambong RUBBER are most encouraging 
and the cultivation of these species is being rapidly 
extended. 
In Perak the cultivation of the SUGAR.CANE 
continues to prosper, flourish and extend, and, I 
am sorry to say, is in some places displacing padi, 
European and Chinese capitalists buying up padi 
land from the Malays, who, with some leliictance, 
part with their land, unable to resist the tempta- 
tion of ready cash. The export of sugar from 
Perak amounted to pikuls 343,881, valued at 
$1,500,000. 'i'he figures for the preceding year were 
pikuls 278,156, value |1, 315,974. 
CENSUS IN THE .Malay States,— For the 
purposes of the Census the following areas were 
re-cognised, to which I have added the figures of 
population for the years 1891 and 1901, and the 
increase per cent : — 
Area. Population. Increase 
State Sq. milo. 1S91. 1901. per cent. 
Perak 6,500 214,254 329.665 53.87 
Selangor 3,200 81,592 163,789 106.86 
Negri Sembi- 
laa 2,6f1f) 65,219 96,028 47.23 
Pahang 14,000 57,444 84,113 46.4S 
26,300 418i509 678,595 62.14 
