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A JOURNEY IN JOHORE. 
tion of the two rivers Sayong and Negaoyoung with that of 
Johore; I was then informed that both were inhabited by 
Jakuns ; but as many days would be required to visit them 
I continued to go up the river. In the evening i reached a 
place called Minkao, where are the two last Malay houses 
in a kampong on the left bank going up the river, and where 
I likewise found the first families of Jakuns They amount 
in that place to the number of thirty persons. On the 
opposite side in another kampong named Kampong Ynass 
are also found five families of Jakuns. 
The incessant rain forced me to remain here two days. 
The river is here no more than twenty or twenty-five feet 
in breadth, but is very deep. I remarked that the river of 
Johore from its source to Menkao is called Sayong Besar 
by the aborigines, while they give the name of Sayong 
Kechil to the Sayong river, which I have before mentioned. 
During my stay in that place I was informed that the 
great Panghulu Batin, who, rules over all the Jakuns who 
inhabit this part of the Johore territorv, was living about 
two hours from there ; as the Malays who had brought me 
up refused to go further, I sent for him. The next morning 
he arrived with six other Jakuns; he promised to give me 
men to conduct me by land to the extremity of the Banut 
river. I therefore started with him in a small boat, in order 
to reoair to his house. When I left the Malays to entrust 
myself amongst the Jakuns, I felt quite easy: I was much 
satisfied to find myself again amongst people whom I already 
knew to be perfectly honest, and most inoffensive. I had 
scarcely departed when a heavy rain began to fall, and it 
continued until the evening ; we proceeded however up the 
river for about one hour, when the rain was so violent that 
the Batin declared that it was impossible to go further. We 
stopped at a Jakun’s house on the right side of the river, 
which is in that place no more than eight or ten feet broad 
but yet very deep As the branches of the trees which cross 
the river, had prevented us from keeping a covering upon 
the boat, we were all wet and in a very unpleasant state. 
We lighted fires in several places to warm and dry ourselves 
Several of my men felt a little sick all the evening. Two 
hours after my arrival there, the Batin had a severe fit of 
fever, the Indo-Portuguese boy had likewise an attack, but 
slight. I was a little anxious about them ; but the good 
appetite which every one of them shewed the next morning 
at breakfast cheered me up again. That day I repaired to 
the house of the Pdnghulu Batin, which is in the interior of 
