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Rh and converted into a Sanatorium for civil and military patients. Two bungalows are set apart for the former, and three or four attap sheds for the latter, who are frequently conveyed here from the garrison at Batavia. Prior to the erection of these hospitals the invalid soldiers were sent to Holland.

At noon we started on ponies for the Pangarango, which is one of the highest mountains in Java, being ten thousand five hundred feet above the level of the sea. After passing through some coffee plantations, the road dwindles to a mere foot-path, and nothing can be seen but a dense forest of wild trees, amongst which the Chaumara, Chantigy, and Sarundong are conspicuous from their height and size.

When we were about two or three miles from Sindanglaya, we stopped at a small hut, serving as a Passangrahan, in the grounds of which strawberries and European vegetables were growing most temptingly. We also perceived two quinine