Owing to the heavy rains we found the level country on the left bank submerged, of 
which the people here were taking advantage by turning out in whole families to plant paddy. 
With two men I got to the top ox Gunong Sayong, collecting several rare plants on our 
way ; but tho onlrGutta trees we met with, were those yielding Gutta-taban and Gutta- 
suudek also called Guttn-pntih, and of these only a few large trees, as they have been nearly 
all destroyed to get the Gufcta. 1 succeeded in getting about 500 young plants to take to 
Singapore, 
On this hilt I first saw the " daun saang ” of the Perak Malays — the Palm with very 
largo leaves which Mr. Douglas mentions in his Report on Ids recent journey to Junta, hut 
I. could find no good seeds. We met two men in the jungle searching for gutta who told us 
that they had come from Pahang through the jungle, looking for gnttta all the way. 
fxoraswere very showy in the jungle, Acrotremas and herbaceous ALelastomacece abundant. 
1. found tho people on this side of the river very civil and well disposed, almost all I met 
giving me the customary “ tabili, 5 ' which is sufficient evidence that the natives here are vastlv 
changed from what they were two years ago, when these Sayong people. were about the worst 
in Perak. 
I returned to the Residency at 7.30 p.vi., thoroughly tired. 
November 2nd. — Packed the plants collected yesterday. .Heavy rain as usual. 
November 3rd. - AM rutin g for the guides Rajah Muda had promised to give me for ascending 
. Gunong Bubo, but it came out that he had some private objection to my going up there — pro- 
bably on account of his men having received mo act from the Resident to cut a road up it, 
which l afterwards found had not been done. 
Rajah Muda advised 
I left K walla Kangsa 
The Resident finding that promises only were to be had from the- 
me to go back to Ganis and try there for guides, and on the 4th ins tan 
arrivln g.ai Gapis at G p m. • 
November 5th and Gilt,- — Lam up. at (lapis with fever; but some of my men were busv 
searching for guides and on the morning of the Tth we left for Bnkit Gantang. 
Arrived ben .1 sent word to the Pungulu that I wanted him to assist me in getting guides 
to which he replied that he was too si *k to come and see me or to see me if T went to him. 
1 owe vein i t ins a 1 got one old man who had been one of the party which Captain Speedy, 
sent up to fix a flag on tho ton in 1875, ami at 12 o’clock we left Bukifc Gant&ngen route to 
Gunong Bubo. 
i he first hour's travelling was th •ougii ij * ml and running streams, minus boo ts and stock) ng, 
and by He time we had got up about 290 feet it .commenced to rain in torrents putting botanizing 
out of the question altogether. The man who carried my portmanteau managed to let it fall 
into a small m'cr w** had to. cross, thus leaving me without a dry article of clothing to wear. 
in 
with 
a cm 
arcoal-burner’s hut at 150 feet where 
We pushed on in the tain til! wo fell 
we stopped till next morning. 
'I be Chinese charcoal burners are very numerous about this range from 1 to 2.500 feet 
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elevation win- re they arc last- destroying ail the largest trees. 
It seems a'tnoM like Vandalism to cut down all the tine Diptero •.annuls, Ac., for the sole 
pur pom- of making cnarcoal, when the timber is so valuable, especially when smaller trees 
would produce equally good charcoal, but would perhaps not give such good returns to the 
burners. • 
November 8th, Left the Chinamen's hut at 6.30 A.n ., and after a vein stiff eJiittb we got 
up lo 2, GOO feet whence we had an easy track for some distance through a jungle of ‘‘Bertam,’ 
( hugeissona triMe) and Cilami. 
A MJ,000 i cot we began to meet with Belagiueihis Ro lypodi urn platyphy Ilium 'J amitis 
Bind sms, Ac,, and Rhododendron javanieum was blooming on several of the trees. 
At 2 P.M., we arrived at the top of a hill which the guide pronounced to be Ghmung 
Bui io. nor wm; in. he be convinced of the mistake he had made, until I pointed out Gunong 
Bubo rising quite 2,001.) feet above us to the S. £., and then lie found out we were on Gunong 
Chcy which is about 8,600 feet above sea level. 
However, it was now too late in the day to remedy the mistake, so the tent was put- up 
and the men got their evening meal, which consisted of roasted rice, as we could get water 
nowhere near. 
Here I found Nepenthes albo marginal a, some two or three spp. of Rhododendron 
Gleiehenia longiVsima, G. eireimita, oieaudra n^ormis. I?tcris Horaiieldii, Dammara sp. 
Dacrydiuii sp. and a Pbdocarpus. Orchids were represented by Pholidota some small Erias 
and CVrlogynes and the beautiful, though diminutive Coryaulhes fornieata. 
November ,9th. Left the top of Gunong Cheyat 6.30 a.m., and started down the left side 
thinking to stride into some path to Buko* getting down on this side we found rat-hfer hazardous 
several 1 imes being obliged to dr.op over granite rocks 15 to 20 feet hi^li. 
After a quarter of an hour’s falling and scrambling we reached the bottom of the gorge 
and found by the aneroid that we had descended 950 feet, and here fell in with a beau- 
tifully limpid mountain stream which the men were only too glad to see. 
Perns of several genera were abundant here, and I found one of the curious Balanop- 
horte. 
The guide and 1 fell put here about the direction we had to go, and as nearly all the 
coolies took his side I was obliged to give in to him, and we started climbing up a hill 
through an almost impenetrable mass of Gala mis. 
