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example in which lie was followed by all our other attendants as they approached the place. On inquiry, I found that these rocks were called Lawang Sakatnn, and had been placed here by order of a king named Rato Pajajarran Raden Suryakanchama, to mark the entrance to this dense forest, once a portion of his domain. The respect in which his memory is held is shown by the almost universal custom among the natives of taking off their hats as they approach the place. Higher up we crossed over two streams running parallel with each other, the vvater of one being icy cold, whilst that of the other was boiling hot. The path afterwards descended into a large hollow, or amphitheatre, called Sabuksaha, hemmed in by the bases of three mountains, and strewn over with enormous blocks of stone and boulders of granite, which have probably been carried down by the force of the Avater, at a time when the stream, running between the Ghedde and the

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