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 X got to the top of Gunong Sayong, collecting several rare plants on our 
way ; but the otiIy Gutta trees w o met with, were those yielding Gutta-tahan and Gutta - 
suudek also called Gutta-putih, and of these only a few large trees, as they have been nearly 
all destroyed to get the Gutta. T succeeded in getting about 500 young plants to take to 
Singapore. 
On this hill I first saw the “ daun saang " of the Perak Malays — the Palm with very 
large leaves which Mr. Douglas mentions in his Report on his recent journey to Kinta, but 
I could find no good seeds. We met two men in the jungle searching for gutta who told us 
■that they had corns from Pahang through the jungle, looking for guttta all the way. 
' Ixoras wore very showy in the jungle, Acrofcremas and herbaceous Melastomaeece abuiumnt. 
I found the people on this side of the river very civil and well disposed, almost all l met 
giving me the customary “ tabih," which is sufficient evidence that the natives here are vastK 
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.m., thoroughly tired. 
November 2nd. — Packed the plants collected yesterday. Heavy rain as usual. 
November 3rd. — Waiting 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 mv going up there — pro- 
bably on account of his men having received money from the Resident to cut -n road up it, 
which I afterwards found had not been done. 
The Resident finding that promises only were to be had from the Rajah Muda advised 
me to go back to Gapis and try there for gukles, and on the 4th instant, t left K walla, Ivangsn 
arriving at Gapis at 6 p m. 
November 5 th and 6 th, — Laid up at Gapis with fever; but some of my men were busy 
searching for guides and on the morning of the 7th we left for Bukit Gantang. 
Arrived here 1 sent word to the Puhgulu that L wanted him to assist me in getting guides 
to which lie replied that he w# too sick to come and see me or to see me if 1 went to him. 
However, at last i got one old may who had been one of the party which Captain Speedy, 
icnfc up to fix a flag on the top in 18/5, and at 12 o'clock we left Bukit Gantang en route to 
Gunong Bubo. 
The first hour’s travelling was through mild, and running streams, minus boots and stocking, 
and by the time w • had got up about 28U 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 river we hadfto cross, thus leaving me without; a dry article of clothing to wear. 
We pushed on in the rain till we fell in with a charcoal-burner’s hut at 150 feet where 
we stopped till next morning. 
The Chinese charcoal burners are very numerous about this range from 1 to 2.500 feet 
elevation where they are fast destroying all the largest trees. 
It seems almost like Vandalism to cut down all the fine Dipteroearpajis, for the sole 
purpose of making charcoal, 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, .Deft the Chinamen’s hut at 6.30 asm., and after a very stiff climb we got 
up to 2,600 feet whence wo had an easy track for *.une distance through a jungle of “JBerfnm,” 
(hugeissona triste) and Cilami. . 
At 3,000 feet we began to meet with .SelagineUas Polypodium platyphyUuiu, Taenitis 
1/indsms, Ac.., and Rhododendron javanicum was blooming on several of the trees. 
At 2 p.xr., we arrived at the top of a hill which the guide pronounced to be Gunong 
Bubo, nor would be be convinced of the mistake he had made, until I pointed out Gunong 
Bubo rising quite 2,000 feet above us to thefcS. E., and then he found out we were on Gunong 
Obey which is about 3,600 feet above sea level. 
However, it was now too late in the day to remedy the mistake, so the lent; was put up 
and the men got thch\ evening meal, which consisted of roasted rice, as ive could get water 
nowhere near. / ; , 
Here I found Nepenthes albo iharginata, some two or three spp, of Rhododendron 
Gieichenia longissima, G. ciivinata, eliiandra neaformis, Pteris Rorsfieldii, Dammara sp. 
Dacrydium sp. and a Podocarpus. Orchids were represented by Pholidota some small Erias 
and Cu log , nes and the beautiful, though diminutive Coryanthes fcfrnicata. 
November 9th. Left the top of Gunong C hey at 0.30 a.m.. and started down the left side 
thinking to strike into some path, to Bubo, ‘getting down on this side we found rather hazardous 
several times being obliged to drop over granite rocks 15 to 20 feet high. 
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 sec. 
Perns of several genera were abundant here, and I found one of the curious Balanop- 
iiorte. 
The guide and I fell out here about the direction we had to go. and as uearh all the 
coolies took his side i was obliged to give in to him, and we started climbing up a bill 
through an almost impenetrable mass of Cal amis. 
