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ifter bavins' engaged men 
October 23rd — Very sore and slit? : the effects of yesterday’s work ; but took my plants 
to Matang and packed them for shipment ro Singapore filling two large cases, Returned to 
Thaipeng at 12.30 a.m . 
October 24th. settling with tin men, raining heavily ail day. 
October 25th — Raining all .day ; sent my baggage onto Bukit Gan tang, and at -1 p.m. 
.1 left for the same place, arriving there about 6 p.xr. Here I s 
kindly treated by the Malay policemen. 
October 26th left Bukit Gantang at 7.30 a.m:. for 
to go up Gunong Pondok with me the next day. 
The Brapit Pass forms the boundary between Perak proper and Larnt, and the road 
risMs 100 feet on the Larut side, and falls 200 feet to Gains on the Perak side. 
Here very many interesting plants are to be met with, notably an undeseribed Araliad, 
while the most casual observer can hardly fail being struck by 1 he raaje&tie appearance of a 
number of plants of Aiigioptoris eveeta. The Ziugenvorts master here too in force, the most, 
beautiful perhaps, being Alpinia nutans. An alpinia with nankeen coloured flowers, and 
another with beautifully zebra striped foliage are aMirdant. 
Arriving at G apis 1 put up at the Police Station which is noted for its fever giving 
air, and waited for my men who arrived at 6 i\ u.- Temperature at G p. xr. T9. c Raining all 
night. 
October, 27th — Had considerable difficulty in getting a guide to go up Gunong Pondok 
with me. Although several had promised the day before to be ready at G a. m. to-day and 
so got stocks of Quinine from me, n.o, one had put in an appearance at 8 a. in. when I sent 
two policemen to see what had become of them, and at 10 a. in. 5 hey returned bringing two 
of the deserters with them, and I startl'd at once. 
Gunong Pondok consists of two peaks almost isolated from any other range, composed, 
of limestone, while all other hills for miles round are of granite formation. 
On the Southern side it is quite perpendicular, exgepua small gorge running down between 
the two peaks, where there are trees. Ac. — the only vegetation on the steep parts consisting of a 
few plants of Cyras cireinalis, which have a miserably starve# appearance. For 600 feet up 
the gorge our path was a tolerably easy one. through rank growing Zingibers*. ds. blit after 
that we had several bare walls of limestone to scale — from 10 to 20 feet high, for which we 
were obliged to construct ladders of sticks and roots. 
From 1000 to 4400 feet I could see no soil at all ; nothing but a lot of limestone blocks 
thrown together amongst; which a few Podocarpi and Pandauds were growing, and a few 
herbaceous plants on the shady sides of the rocks: Eventually we reached an elevation of 1700 
1 to be the highest point. Here thenungle is much more dense 
feet above Gapis which I found to be the highest poinl 
than at 1400 feet, and we found some Coelogynes, and Bolbop hyllivm s, Pholidota imbrieata, 
an cErides and a very pretty Ansectochilis, and several Ferns. f 
*Tn our descent I had the misfortune to fall about 20 feet down a limestone ledge, 
breaking mv watch, aneroid and thermometer. The last being the most important as the Resi- 
dent informed me, that there were no more in Perak. . 
1 was much disappointed with the results of my search on this hill, as I fully expected 
i o find a distinct flora from any that I had previously seen, being my first search on lime- 
stone. Although we frequently met with large walls of limestone full of nooks, which, seemed 
so well adapted as nidi for Cypripediums, Ac. not one could be found. 
Palms were represented by Saguerm# saeearifer Licuala peltala and Pinanga maculata, 
and Aloeasia Vcitcliii was abundant in some places. 
October, 28th. September, Left the Police station at 6 a. xt. to visit some caves on Gunong 
Pondok, more especially for the purpose of examining the deposits of bats dung in them 
for a Report to the Resident. 
We climbed up about 260 feet on the Eastern peak which brought us to the mouth of the 
cave. The entrance is about 40 feet high and tlfe sides are covered with slimv green vegetable 
organism. 
The species of bat which inhabits, it is probably Pteropns minimus, of which there 
must be thousands' in this one cave, and the noise they made when we disturbed their 
matutinal slumbers by lighting our torches was deafening. I went in for about GO feet but 
the strong smell from the deposit of dung, Ac., was too powerful to permit of my going 
further: I found it to be from 4 to 5 feet deep ranging in colour from black, the most 
recent, to quite white like saltpetre the earlier deposits, 
This/wonld form a valuable fertilizer for any quick growing crops such as Sugarcane 
and Tobacco, the Chinese here have already found out its use for making saltpetre. 
The soil about the foot of Gunong Pondok appears to be very good, but I was in- 
formed that there are only about 4000 acres of it. Part of this would form a splendid place 
for trying Ipecacuanha. 
October, 29th— Left Gapis at 8.30 A.xr. and arrived at K walla Rang, sa about noon. All 
the way along the road men and women and children were busy planting paddy, and the Malays 
told me that more paddy was being planted in Perak this year then there has been for a great 
number of years previous, which says a good deal for the state of the country. The low land 
between the Brapit Pass and K walla Kangs a appears to be adapted for paddy cultivation only. 
1. saw some plots of Tobacco plants: but they were not over- luxuriant. 
October, 31st, and November, 1st, were spent at the Residency at Kwalla Kangsa making 
arrangements for future, journeys. • ' 
November, 2nd September. — Left the Residency at 7 a. .vr. and crossed the Perak river to 
Sayong where some of the Rajah Muda’s men met me to go up Gunong Sayong. in search 
of Gutta yielding trees, * 
