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THE BISUA OF JOHOttlS. 
arrived at Tamo, where we found the To Jinnang, the Malay who 
■governs the district of the Indau. Next morning we resumed 
our course, the river totally changing its character, becoming broad, 
deep, and slow, and then passing into a chain of small lakes. Above 
these it contracted again, and in the evening, when we arrived at 
Pakam, our guide did not consider it advisable in the shallow state of 
the river, and without smaller canoes, to ascend to Slabin where the 
usual route to Batu Pallet lies. We therefore left the canoe and struck 
into the jungle. After two days hard walking, resting the first night 
in an open Binua hut and the next on the ground, we arrived on the 
afternoon of the 2/til. at the Boko or Pau, one of the principal 
branches of the Batu P&hat. Next day I descended to the place 
which I had reached from the western coast and where the other 
branch, the Simrong, joins the Pau and forms the Batu Pahat. The 
time occupied in reaching the Batu Pahat from the mouth of the In- 
d&u having proved longer than I had been led to expect, I endea¬ 
voured to procure a boat and return at once to Singapore by the 
Malacca Straits, but was unsuccessful. We therefore again turned 
our faces to the east, and by the 30tli. had retraced our steps to Pan- 
kalian Padang (between Pakam and Tamo) where the Bmtara lives. 
Here I met a Javanese who had recently crossed to the Johore from 
the Simrong, and on malting further enquiries it appeared that this 
was probably a better route than that from the Made. The Bintara 
however made many difficulties in procuring a guide, and I was oblig¬ 
ed to be satisfied with a promise that if the Made was found to have 
too many obstacles, and I should return to Pankallan Padang, he 
would furnish me with guides. Next morning (1st. October) we pro¬ 
ceeded on our way down the river, but had hardly passed the branch 
which conducts to the Johore path, when w r e fell in with an old man 
who cheerfully consented to act as guide to Johore, and as it was now 
necessary to abandon the intention of visiting the Anak Indau, or any 
other localities, and to reach Singapore as soon as possible, I placed 
myself under his guidance, and sent instructions to the Sevang of the 
boat to return without delay. Four days walking brought me over the 
central mountain chain of Johore, (of which Gunong LuMmut 
forms the principal member,) and past the source of that river, 
to Pankallan Tinkala on its right bank. Here a canoe was procured 
which carried us with''great rapidity down the'stream nearly to Kota 
Tingf, where I had the good fortune to find the Raja Kiclii. On 
learning my anxiety to reach Singapore without delay he, with great 
kindness, offered to proceed at once in his own boat, as no other was 
