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tenant Huntley. As they did not turn up we felt convinced they had gone past the turning, although I had left some Malays to point out the path. So Mr. Pickering and We all myself went in search of them, and found them about three miles further on. returned to Jee Jian and put up for the night there. It rained heavily all day and all night. Our accommodation was very indifferent, but the officers and men took matters very cheerfully. The path was so bad that I did not expect Captain Tatham, and it turned out that he could not get further than Kapayang, the guides I had left having gone away before his arrival there.
December 3.-It was raining harder than ever at daylight; the clearing around our hut was covered with water. As the two Malays we had found at Jec Jian told us that neither the Datu Bandar nor Rajah Mahmood had passed that way, I determined to satisfy myself by pressing on to Seppang with a small body of picked men, and to send the others back to Ampangan. My chief reason for taking so small a party was the difficulty and delay in transporting provisions. The path was very narrow, in some places a watercourse owing to the heavy rain, and the coolies soon got tired. Lieutenant Jones, R.N., aud Lieutenant Palmer, 10th regiment, accompanied Mr. Pickering and myself, and they took then twenty men, ten soldiers and ten sailors. Lieutenant Warton, with a small detach- ment, remained in charge of Jec Jian, and Lieutenant Huntley took the rest of the party back to Ampangan. I should mention that the Datus Muda and Bandar Babin accom- panied us; indeed, since my last interview with the Klana, they have been in immediate attendence on me. It was 11 A.M. before all our arrangements were made and a start effected. The road was, if anything, worse than yesterday's. I find we cannot march more than two miles an hour in the jungle. It was consequently 4 P.M. before we reached our destination. The only house there was an open shed, and in this we put up for the night. It was Rajah Mahmood's custom-house, and is situated on the bank of the Seppang River; here the path ends.
December 4.-At daylight we started on our return journey, and reached Jec Jian about 11 A.M. Here we found the Klana with some 200 of his followers. He brought information that the Bandar had gone to Salangore by Batang Labu, but had no news of Mahmood. After resting about an hour we started for Kapayang, determined to put up the troops for the night at the Chinese kongsee house there, and to start early next day for Battang Labu. Mr. Pickering and myself, with the Datu Muda and Bandar Bahin, returned to Ampanyan.
December 5.-We started at 6 A.M., taking with us Dr. McNamara and four fresh men, also coolies with provisions for three days. We joined our party at the kongsee house about 7:30 A.M., and at 8 left for Batang Labu. The Datu Muda accompanied us all the way, but, after leaving Kapayang, I did not see the Bandar Bahin until close to Battang Labu. Our path to-day was worse than any we have travelled yet; and had it not been for the hope of meeting Mahmood and his men at the end of our journey, I am certain but few of us would have completed it that day. The Arabs joined us at Kapa- yang, and kept with us all day. They are a poor-looking lot of men, but Mr. Pickering speaks in the highest terms of their courage. They expected fighting and loot to-day, and that is what brought them.
December 6.This day we made a day of rest, contenting ourselves with making a We found a considerable herd of water buffaloes, thorough examination of the campong.
a large extent of very flourishing-looking paddy, and between forty and fifty houses.
December 7.-Our return journey was slow. We had to carry one of the sailors, who had cut his foot, and this impeded our progress considerably. We left between 6 and 7 A.M., This completed our jungle marching; and though we and reached the bungalow at 6 P.M. have done little, apparently, by our long and wearisome journeys, I believe they have produced an effect which will be felt throughout the whole peninsula. The Malays did not hesitate to say that we could not follow them into the jungle, and if we drove them out of their stockade, they had only to retire and remain in their jungles to be perfectly secure; now we have shown them that wherever Malays can go Europeans can go; and that after a whole week's marching in inclement weather, we were not half so much knocked up as the Malays who accompanied us.
On our arrival I found that the Chinese had taken advantage of our absence, and that the Hwey Chews (Ali Sams) had attacked the Khehs and burnt all that remained of Rassa. Several Chinamen had been killed and a good many wounded. Captain Tatham had acted energetically, and, by arresting Ali Sam, the 3rd captain, China, and several headmen, had prevented further bloodshed. I felt the time had now come to show these captains that they had not a weak Malay Prince to deal with, and I determined to punish them severely, ---Wong Hin and Ugoli Kim for their complicity in the Bandar's rebellion, and Ali Sam for daring to permit bis men to fight. Accordingly I summoned all these into the presence of
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the Klana, and, after detailing their offences, with the consent and approval of the Klana, I fined them each 3,000 dollars, with the alternative that, unless the fine was paid in twenty-four hours, they would each receive twenty strokes of a rattan, and be deported from Sungie Ujong and their property confiscated. They pleaded poverty, but I dismissed them, saying I would carry out my sentence. Before retiring, I arranged with Lieutenant Jones, R.N., and Captain Tatham, R.A., for a general disarmament of the Chinese early to-morrow. Mr. Pickering prepared a proclamation in Chinese and Malay, making it penal for any native to carry arms without a permit signed by the Klans and Resident after the 8th December, and the Klana consented willingly to destroy his own stockades, and to cause his Chiefs to do the same.
December 8.-From 6 A.M. till 1 P.M. we were employed in disarming the Chinese. It was quietly and effectually carried out. I have no doubt many arms were concealed, but we got a very great many, and had them all conveyed to the bungalow.
The captains, China, made several applications to me for a reduction in the amount of their fine, but I was resolute and refused. At 7 P.M. Wong Hin paid his, and on being brought out for punishment Ali Sam also paid. Ugoli Kim remained obdurate, and caused the twenty strokes of a rattan in his case to be administered. Wong Hin and Ali Sam, after a reprimand from me, were released. Ugoli Kim I locked up for the night.
December 9.-This morning all the troops and police, with the exception of fifty men selected from the Royal Artillery and 10th Regiment, and thirty-two police-constables, took their departure for Lukut. Captain Tatham remains in command of the troops. Mr. Pickering and 1 accompanied them as far as Rassa. I was sorry to part with them, and they seemed sorry at leaving Sungie Ujong. Better officers and men I never wish to serve with.
We returned to Ampangan by Rahang, and I had for the first time an oppor- tunity of examining the several forts and stockades taken by Mr. Pickering and the Arabs before our arrival. In the afternoon I visited Ugoli Kim in the look-up. He was most humble, and begged hard to be allowed to pay 1,000 dollars down and to give a promissory note at three months date for the remaining 2,000 dollars, rather than be deported. To this I agreed, provided the promissory note was signed not only by himself but by his headmen. These arrangenients were effected in the evening, and he was released. After this I had a long interview with the Klana relative to raising a revenue, and at its close I explained in detail my ideas on the subject. I asked him to consider them well, and to give me an answer on the 11th instant.
December 10.-During the afternoon a Hwey Chew Chinaman was brought in terribly hacked about the shoulders and neck. I sent for the doctor, and in the mean time heard his story. He was returning from Lukut, where he had gone with nine others for rice, and when about two miles from Rassa was attacked by a number of Macao Chinese, one of whom had tried to cut his head off. Doctor McNamara dressed his wounds, but he held out little hope of his recovery. The wounded man's friend, who accompanied him, says he can point out the place where the assault was committed and the persons who took part in it.
December 11.-At 6 A.M. I started with Captain Tatham, Mr. Pickering, a detach- ment of one officer and ten men of the 10th, and ten policemen under a European sergeant, to examine the place where the Chinese coolies were said to have been assaulted, and, if possible, to arrest the assailants. At Bambar, about a mile from Rassa on the Lukut We found a newly- road, we examined a mine, from which they were said to come. erected kubu and stockade at the entrance to the mines. We arrested the headmen, and on examining the houses found a number of spears and swords. I turned out all the coolies, and made them pull down the kubu and stockade. On the other side of the river was another mine, and from this, on our approach, we noticed numbers of coolies running away. As we found a few spears and swords here, I left Sergeant Kieman and six policeman to bring the headman to me on his return, and to prevent further assaults. We then proceeded to the scene of the assault of the previous day. This was about a mile further on. We found the hat of the wounded man, but could see nothing of the body of one of the coolies said to have been murdered. It may have been thrown into the river, and have been carried away by the rapid current. I am, however, inclined to think no one was murdered. We returned, and at Rassa found the Klana busily engaged in laying out the new town. We gave him our advice, and pointed out the spot where we thought the guard-house should be built. He is quite anxious to do everything we suggest, and returned with us to Ampangan, asking our opinion as to the line of road, &c.
In the evening he came to our quarters with the Datu Muda. Captain Tatham was present. He went at once into the matter of the revenue, and seemed desirous of giving the opium, spirits, gambling, and pawnbroking farms to the three captains, Chinn. He