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MALAY SKETCHES

same valley through which the river, plainly visible
twenty miles away, winds in a silver streak. On
stands isolated mass
the right Gunong Bubu, the
terminating in a needle-like point nearly 6000 feet
high. The spurs of this mountain spread out in
every direction, north to the Pass from Larut into
the Perak Valley, east to the Perak River, and
southwards nearly to the coast. In the south-east,
across the Perak River, rise five or six ranges of
hills of ever-increasing height. Over the first range
can be seen the valley of the Kinta, with its many
fantastic limestone cliffs standing clearly out ; then
follow Chabang, Korbu, and finally the mountains
Perak from Those
dividing Pahang. hills fading
out of sight in the far-away south are near the
borders of Perak and Selangor.
As we turn our faces back to the setting sun,
the great disc, now grown a deep crimson, is sink-
ing through a bank of clouds into a sea of flame.
The waters beyond the influence of the sun's light
are a brilliant sapphire, a reflection of the sky above.
one low bank of
There is only long, cloud, and that
is on the horizon.
A moment later and the sun itself has gone, but
where a
from the spot it disappeared is radiating
lurid glow which kindles the clouds into fire and
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