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with the day's journey, that we were not in the key to enjoy a nocturnal concert. Drahman's reply, though amushicp in its way, was by no means cheering to those who, exhausted with fatigue, were anticipating the comfort of a night's repose.

" These," sir, said he, smiling, " are the night watches; they will go on like that till four o'clock in the morning !"

The village of Adgiebarang is prettily situated in the vicinity of a mountainous district. Putey and Karang are the loftiest peaks in the neigbour- hood, and the rich valleys beneath them are seen to advantage from a hillock not far beyond the Passangrahan.

The two following days were employed in cross- ing the chain of mountains dividing the residences of Tagal and Banjoemas a very tedious journey, entailing a frequent change of coolies and horses. Some ])arts of the road, indeed, being quite im- practicable to the latter, we were obliged to employ

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