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FiVE DAYS IN NANINO * 
THIRD DAY. 
(Thursday, 11 fh February , 18 17 J 
Excursion from Sabang Ayer Panas to Malacca Pinda. and 
Buicit Panchur. 
Early this morning I started for Bukit Panchur proceed, 
ing first along the road to Alor Gaja. As we passed the hot 
spring it was curious to see the vapour not only rising from 
the swamp but from the streamlet by which the water is 
carried off. A long line of vapour marked its course through 
the paddy fields. Where the road ascends Ganong hill, after 
crossing the spur over the Ayer Panas valley, a section a few 
feet in depth is exposed. In crossing the jungle of brush¬ 
wood beyond Ganong village the notes of birds were heard 
all around. The most remarkable was that of the burong 
Takwasa which consists of four notes, each emitted with great 
slowness and followed by a pause. On arriving at the fiat 
of Ganun Kichi, or Kachi as it is pronounced by the Na- 
ningites, we struck into the jungle on the left by a foot path. 
At the distance of about two hundred paces from the road 
I suddenly found myself on the right bank of the Malacca 
river, although by the map which I carried (the same which 
is given in Moor’s Notices) the river was a mile and a half from 
the road. The stream was about 20 feet broad and 3 feet 
deep, and flowed in a bed worn to a depth of nine feet below 
the level of the land on each side. In rainy seasons it fills 
this bed to the brim, and occasionally overflows. We crossed 
it by an angular bridge formed of a few slender sticks rising 
from each bank, with a great acclivity, to the top of a long 
post driven into the centre of the bed. We next passed some 
cleared ground covered with cocoanuts, a paddy flat and 
some jungle, when we found ourselves in an open spacg at 
the foot of a steep hill covered with forest. On the one side 
the Malacca river swept up at a curve so acute that it 
almost returned upon itself. On the other side, from a large 
empty shed a path ascended through a cleared strip to the 
brow of the hill, where one of the most famous kramats in 
this part of the Peninsula, that of Datu Dalong, is situated. 
Some pious Chinese has placed the remains of an iron furnace, 
to serve as a shrine, near a few trees that have been left 
standing, but the inakatn or grave of the Datu is not here 
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