Peace be upon you all. It's been almost 3 months since this blogspot was updated. Here's something to break the ice.
Last weekend me and family made a small trip to Felda Jelai towards the Negeri Sembilan-Johor border and made stops to and fro. Among it is a place called Sungai Pertemuan, 8 km west of the town of Bahau.
The name could be translated as "meeting of rivers". It is where the Jempol river meets and flows into the Muar river.
The much much longer Muar river flows into the Straits of Melaka at the town of Muar more than 100 km downriver. In the olden days ships, at least small ones could go up here from the straits...
The ships could then sail up the Jempol river to a certain historical point...
Before we touch on that let's look at the Muar and Jempol rivers meeting point from a number of angles...
Near the meeting point lies the tomb of a person known as Datuk Sempedang. He is said to be the leader of 9 families who came from Pasai (in Aceh, north of Sumateras island) and settled here after sailing up the Muar river.
Moving northwards from the meeting point. The Jempol river runs along the left out of this picture. Somewhere to the left of the big trees lie the area known as Jalan Penarikan. It is named so because ships used to be pulled some 300 metres to the Serting river.
The river lies behind this Negeri Sembilan palace while part of the ancient 'pulling' route lies along its west walls. From the Serting river ships could then enter the Bera river on to the Pahang river which flows into the South China Sea...
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