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xiv with the Resident — Perplexing difficulty — Importance of knowing French — Electric Telegraph — Fertility of the Soil — The Sawah Serpent — A Disturbed Siesta — Singular Stocking — Narrow Escape — Tobacco Fields — Visit to the Regent 211

CHAPTER VIII.

To Batoe, or Batu — Stubborn Horses — Legend of Aruman — Javanese Dislike to a Broken Tale — Arrival at the Passangrahan — Bath-House — Ruins of Singorite — Hot Springs — Petrifactions — Javanese Pilgrimages — Their Reverence for the Religion of their Ancestors — Excursion to Ngantang — Waterfall of Tretes — Coffee Factory — — The Jodang — Fancy Ball at Malang — Java Sparrows — Sugar Factory — Effects of Free Labour — Torches and Lamps for Evening "Walks — Native Game of Foot-Ball .... 237

CHAPTER IX.

Leave Surabaya for Kedirie — Locks — Marriage of Verengeii Trees — Modjophait — Revered Birds — A Poor Man's Pet — Drive to the Tologo — Bathing-Place of the Sultanas — Ruins of their Palace — The Koobooran, Plataharan, or Wishing-Sheds — The Requests of Luck-Seekers — Darawattie's Tomb — Troublesome Horses — Late Arrival — Kedirie — Wretched Hotel — Simple Food — We Ride to Salomanglain — Tiger Haunt — Blitar, Panatharan, and Tologo ........ 275