five days in naning. 
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man in the population of the territory to be subjugated,* a 
sum ten times the value which a Malay bears in most parts 
of the Archipelago, f 
We now left the carriage road and struck off in a westerly 
direction,, crossing a dry sandy flat at the foot of the hill, 
and then the stream which feeds the paddy valley below. 
Our path now lay along an inhabited elevation called Chl- 
rana (sometimes China) Puteh on which the gomuli , ijo or 
Mbong palm was intermixed with cocoanuts &c. At the 
foot, patches of the sago palm occurred frequently. Several 
cottages were scattered along the summit of the hill. We 
next crossed a swampy flat, and here, for the first time in 
Naning, the path failed. My companions however cau¬ 
tiously feeling their way soon found a hard sandy path 
beneath the line of deepest water. The heat had now 
become so great that this wade was very agreeable and 
refreshing. We proceeded across a dry, flat or slightly un ¬ 
dulating, sandy tract, in a direction nearly parallel to a 
high and steep ridge at a short distance on the right, called 
Bukit Payong. The sides were mostly covered with low 
jungle, shewing that pdddi wndh had been extensively 
cultivated. The mamillary summits were still covered with 
primitive forest. Our path continued for some time over 
the same ground, and through low brushwood or jungle. 
Not a single rock fragment or pebble had hitherto occur¬ 
red, and I was somewhat at a loss whether to consider the 
tract as the product of a quartzose granite disintegrated 
on the spot, or the debris oi the mountains. At last the 
head of a granite block appeared in the path and removed 
all doubt. The small specimen which I obtained was a fine 
grained aggregate of whitish felspar, translucent and yellowish 
quartz of a resinous lustre, and blackish-red mica, holding 
some large crystals of mica. One of my chief motives in 
extending my journey to the mountains, was the expectation 
of being able to trace the line where their granitic rocks rose 
through the laterized sedimentary strata of the low hilly 
country, and my disappointment was great on now finding 
that I had passed the line without obtaining any trace of 
* The number of men in the whole population of N&niog at the time of the 
contest (1832) was about 1,500 (Begbie, p. 149.) 
t ^be Nfioing war is not likely to be soon forgotten by the Malays, for they 
have made it the subject of a satirical poem, in which the proceedings of our 
civil and military authorities are rather roughly handled. Its account of the 
disastrous chances, the moving accidents by flood and field” forms an amusing 
comment on Captain tSegbie’s narrative. 
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