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Rh uttering wild boots and lives whenever the horses slackened their speed. These lopers are a disagreeable necessity, as they keep up the pace of the horses, like Cairo donkey-boys, by the terror of their voices and whips.

The road from Surabaya to Passeroewan is a good level one, from thirty to thirty-five feet in breadth, with smaller roads on each side for carts and pedestrians. These are separated from the main road by embankments, which, however, continued only for a short distance. As we got farther into the country, one road was made to serve the purpose of all, conveyances, vehicles, equestrians, &c. Tamarind, pepul, and jatty, or teak trees formed a delightfully shady avenue the whole way.

Fields of Neela (Indigo) Paddy, plantations of sugar-cane, and orchards with Bananas, Mangustin, Pulassan, and Rambutan, were seen here and there on all sides, with mountains in the distance, the view of which filled the gaps between the trees.