planted, which in most cases was very unpromising, and would by no means jusuty the re s- 
the Chinese miners in this district. This is the dirtiest place I ever saw, diffusing » ^ 
odour of sewage and opium, offensive in the extreme, and the mam street,-,! such rt 
can be called, was covered by about a foot of slum mud. , . ■ t en011 ah 
The mines we passed in the neighbourhood were in active woih ha\ n J ; " 
water for washing purposes without being flooded like those at hamnutiug. ■ • . •* : 
reached the banks of the Kampar river, having stopped for some tune at (xiinong - ‘ 
fringe of what is generally known as " spamsu stripe "°™, !| k t carefully combed 
yellow, and white fringe looking very grotesque, as it is evidently c . 
UPW The soil between doping and Qualla Dipang is by far the best I have seen .in Jerak, 
especially along the right'bauk of the Kampar river, where the Zmgiterara, a 
80 feet hhdi than which no better criterion could be desned ol the nine. .* - 
“,«on. A email* plantation of tobacco has been mafeat Bmcato fttoagbu the 
SIS, “.S.- 
‘"""liXtlnck 1 TulgirtAuCitoi. eveeta attains to an immense, size, and here also I saw 
several of SS e^Sdwith its weird and ghost-like inflorescence also Clcredendron 
i » • l* 11 * .1.1., n A ■(•Ann cj ill ti 1 
?ipem 
November 23rd, went out with Mr. Brace to visit the limestone hills on the left Cbm* 
of the river. As is usual with all limestone lulls there are numerous a * ™ V Xra 
these hills which arc very diversified and interesting Several of Ae plant* grow ^ heie 
I also found on Gunong Pondok, but there were others new to roe “to’hilus 
plants known tome on this hill werejhlocaRia a few tons, principally 
xamthophyllus, (very small), tome G-esneracea* heg< 
Aspidiums and Sagenias. Epiphytal Orchidea? represe 
iti inns and. sagrenias jcipiimy iBi. urcumete xt/jjz»j«eiited by f\mb idioms. . 
S Xe of limestone Us is terminated at Qualla 
peak, called by the Malays “ Nasi Babut a portent gigantic representation of a mi a - 
and mi this peak I wished to get, although the natives informed me that no one Jiad pic\i 
ously ‘ reached the top, and consequently no guides were to be h&dm^htrnauyrAmnve 
could be put. Rajah Dris had at the Resident’s request furnished me with letters to Rajah Ahrna 
and Datu Muda Rasat asking for guides and assistance, an^ having despatched these on the 
evening of our arrival at Qualla Dipang, Data Muda Easat promptly replied in person, 
and on returning from oitr botanizing trip we found him awaiting us wnl\ two . ek.us v 
had previously attempted to ascend Nasi Sabut. 
November 21th.— Started early accompanied by Mr. Bruce, Rajah Brahman and coolies, 
&c. and after crossing the Kampar river and an elephant side of half an nour s duration 
we reached the foot of Nasi Sabut on the North side ; rather against my own inclinations 
as to ascend on the South side appeared to me to be far more practicable. 
The caves here are the homes, or at any rate the breeding-places, of numerous wild 
animals as evidenced by the number of tracks, &c. On the Nortn and N L. ^es k 
is quite perpendicular from base to crown, and up tins wall I was told was the onl y ^ aj up, 
two roots being pointed out to me as those by which the men had pieuoiiM, ascent- • < 
distance, but I deelintf to attempt to got u| 'by the «jna Zf 
tnat ixunong Bondok, as we were oougeu to niusauu v ^ ^ i 
roots ; .eventually getting up to an elevation of !>50 feet about Qualla Dipaiig, where uur 
further progress was stopped by an upright wall of rock quite 800 feet high and after a 
few vain attempts we very reluctantly gave it up as impracticable and descenued an un- 
dertaking which pro d more difficult, than ascending. Doubtless, m the dry season one 
[ht fet to the top, * it the little soil that rests in the crevices of the marine was so slip- 
° • . 1 •. 1 Ito to* /lnnrtflVAl'ICt 
mi or 
pery owing to the frequent rains that it made climbing rather dangerous. * 
’ Added to this the edges of the marble are so sharp that it is next to impossible for a 
hare-footed native to walk on it. . . . , 
One man fell about 15 feet, but luckily was caught in the, brushwood and sustained no 
hurt beyond the shaking and fright. 
