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noonday siesta by the unexpected aiTival of the Resident and the Controleur. His own house, he added, was at our service as long as we liked to stay in Tuniungong.

I thanked the young chief for his kind invitation, but as we Intended leaving for Wonosobo early next morning, we were obliged to decline it.

Having been informed by the landlord that I should find a difHculty in procuring horses for the journey, 1 asked our visitor how we could obtain them, thinkino; he mio'ht be able to order them for me. To my surprise, spite of the landlord's surmise to the same eifect, I was told that two Government officials had already monopolised every ])o.st-horse in the town, a right which, as experience liad on one or two occasions before taught me, they frequently exercise to the great annoyance of travellers.

Whenever these Government Amtanars contem- plate a tour of pleasure or duty, all consideration

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