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138 is freely granted, their only expense being for food, which is supplied by the chief native of the nearest village. The Passangrahan is generally built of wood, with an attap roof, and consists of one large room, with bed-rooms to the right and left, and generally one or two verandahs. It is committed to the care of the Mantrie or Wodono of the village, and not unfrequently to that of some pensioned soldier.

We now engaged fresh coolies, paid those that were leaving us, and dispensed with the tandoe, and the eight men by whom it was accompanied; for, as my wife preferred riding, it was quite useless. As the road was now broader and more even, we proceeded at a much more rapid rate, passing through jungles of lofty umbrageous forest trees, their sides and branches covered with lovely parasites and creepers, under which, in some parts, were coffee plantations, with husbandmen tending and trimming them; their white flowers,