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 38 LIFE IN JAVA.

The gentleman laughed incredulously, but, as he was the only European, gave way to them so far as concerned his proposed hunt. Notwithstanding, liowcver, his labourers' good opinion of the tiger, he took care, before nightfall, to have an effectual barrier, in the shape of a rough door, fixed in the opening through which the dangerous animal had made its entrance and escape.

Near Sukowinangong, the eighth post from Ngawie, we came in view of some mountains, the Rajah JMunko, and the well-known Marabo and Marapi, the smoke of the latter rising in misty clouds against the clear blue sky.

At the next station we found ourselves close to the river Solo ; where, on an elevation, is still to be seen a house, surrounded by a low embrasured wall, formerly a Dutch outpost, the garrison oc- cupying which, at a former period, had bravely encountered and resisted many savage and deter- mined attacks by Kanjansinong, a Sultan of Solo,

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