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Singapore. 2U*/ December. 1877. 
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.1 have the honor to submit to yon the following report oil my recent expedition to 
IWak, for I in: purpose of examining i lie flora and v oge table products of the country, 
.[ left .Singapore October 9th, in the 8. IS. " Pvah Pekbet ” and after calling at Malacca, 
Ivhuig, Salangor, and Rurimi-Sabatang, arrived at Penang at 1) A. if. on i ho 14th instant, and 
left at 0 i’. M. on rite same day, per !S. M. “ .Sri Sarawak for La rut, reaching Matting at Da. ar. 
next morn mg 
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The Resident, being here, .1 reported myself j;o him, and spent the best part of the day 
looking around Alatang, visiting the Custom and Court House and Gaol, with Mr. Sinclair. 
i left M a tang for Thai peug to which place the Resident had preceded me in the even- 
ing, arriving there at 7 r.Ar. and .stopped at the Refddeucy . 
Owing to %e recent heavv rains, the roads were in had condition, rendering a nine 
miles jolting over them, in the Lartft giuirries.fi eirc urns lance worthy of rememiirnncp. Oc- 
toiler 16tli, took a walk ubput Thai peng and its suburbs ; hut saw little interesting from a 
hotauical point of view. 
The sides of the liili on. which the Residency is built, which is about 1 BO feet high arc 
most I v planted with Arabian Coffee, but they Mo not appear to be in a very flourishing con- 
dition. which 1 think is due as much 10 the want of proper thinning and priming as to tbf 
sterility of the soil, Here, as in Singapore, ii seems never ?-» ripen a good crop at any one 
ju. row hiii'cic.H.iLuli iuwu- ju-d vLruia, -la.ltamiziit tiii« ■ it'icr. , 
The plants of Liberian, Coffee which were sent' up from the Botanic Gardens, 'iugapurc. 
May last, and planted her. , are growing well with robust, healthy foliage. 
Hie. greater portion of the land about Thai pong is taken up by tin-mines, -i retching in 
reef ions for some miles. With these however, my present voj ort has nothing to do. 
. Eastward from the Residency a splendidly wooded range of hills rise up to 4 or 5,000 feet 
reaching from the Larut epast in the Bouth to Quedah in the "N orth. This range is known 
to the Malays by several names, but J. think it is ruosi frequently called Gunoitg Hijau. 
The late Mr. Birch. with a largo number of natives, wentVip to one of the peaks above 
Cm- Residency in _LS75. which be estimated to be 1,425 fee r above sea -level ; but there' are some 
peaks near ir : till higher, and sofu'e of these Air. Low wished me to explore ; but some da vs 
must necessarily elapse before guides and men could be got together for the purpose of ac- 
companying me. 
October 17th.- W the men for the hill had not yet arrived l accompanied \f >\ Low and 
Air. Scott to see the tin-mines at fCauiuntftig. 
( Mtob or 18th. —To-day we were making active preparations for starting on the morrow a.- 
the men had arrived, and with them some who had been up with Mr. Birch': and at 9 v.Af. on 
the 19th I left the Residency with II men mid -t or 5 days’ provisions, and started for the 
hills. An hour’s walking through disused tin-mines, swamps and labmg patches relieved bv 
an occasional wade through a stream, brought us to the foot of the range. Immediately on 
entering the jtingje we were gladdened by the sight of the most luxuriant uRdmgrowfh. 
* Mob has. Herbaceous Melastomads* and Phianga maculata being the most noticeable.- \VA 
started climbing in a N.E. direction, and in halt an hour reached an old hut at 800 feet 
which had been used by gutta collectors. At 1.800 we reached the place whore Air. Birch 
slept the iirst night after leaving Thai peug • but the hut is now quite' rotten and has fallen 
down. 
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bp to this point, Being inellas, Lindsms, i >nva2lins, Polv pod aims, Menisdums, 
acutifida and Oissus porphyrophylla are the most frequent -plants met with. 
A little farther on we crossed a large stream near which I found several rare plants, 
including two Rhododendron*.* Borne old fallen trees here word beautiful] y covered with 
majestic Ferns and Grammatophyllum. 4 
At 1,850 feet we fell in with a hut inhabited by throe Chinamen, who are engaged in tin 
washing in the gorges, and as it was raining heavily, we decided on staying here, for break- 
fast. Temperature at 12 o'clock 78 ° Fahr. 
The rain continued all day so we- made preparations for -pern ling the night here,' and 
during the afternoon i strolled through the Chinamen’s mine. 
