2 1 6 Voyage of the Novara. 



sentinelsj there it is that the amazed European falls in with 

 most luxm'iant beds of artichokes and strawberries, and is 

 welcomed on this distant soil by all the well-known fruits of 

 his remote home. The path leads past Tjipodas, into a deep 

 narrow valley, over-grown with the most luxuriant vegetation, 

 and thence througli a forest of indescribable majesty, filled 

 with the straight, tapering, pillar-shaped trunl^s, 80 to 100 feet 

 in height, of the imposing Rasamala [Liquidamhar-AUingiana), 

 and a thoroughly tropical underwood of wild 3Iusacew, and 

 splendid tree-ferns, till finally the broad plateau-shaped Tji- 

 burum (red -water) is reached. Here at an elevation of 

 5100 feet we found some Pasanggrahans, or resting-houses, 

 erected by government for the shelter and accommodation 

 of all travellers through these mountain solitudes, who may 

 happen to be surprised by night, or inclement weather. 

 Such hostelries are found everywhere in the interior of Java, 

 especially in those districts where they are most likely to be 

 needed by European travellers, or by government employes, 

 during their frequent tours of inspection, in which they oc- 

 casionally undergo severe privations. At Tjiburum, lying 

 far above the regions inhabited by man, there is a small 

 nursery of useful plants of colder climes, bearing ample 

 testimony to the indefatigable activity of Mr. Teijsmann of 

 Buitenzorg, to whom the community is moreover chiefly 

 indebted for the laying out of the entire road to the 

 summit of the mountain. As there was every indication of 

 a severe storm coming on, and as we hoped by pressing for- 



