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74 again more undulating and defined; ranges of low hills appeared in the foreground, with here and there a great mountain, like a gigantic fortification commanding this Eastern sea. The view from the harbour is very fine. The Oenarang mountain in the distance forms an imposing object, while to the extreme right towers the Gunong Prau, a very high mountain, on the summit of which it is said there are some remains of Hindoo temples. The Sundara and Soembing, called by the Dutch, from their proximity to each other, the Two Brothers, are observed in the space between these two mountains; and far in the rear rise the twin volcanoes of Murbaboo and Marapi, the latter signifying "ejecting fire," and the former, if I may judge from the termination "aboo," which in the Malay means "ashes," and, I believe, has the same signification in Javanese, " throwing ashes." They are both from nine to ten thousand feet in height.

We arrived at Samarang after a voyage of not