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ejected by the destructive energies of the neighbouring active 

 crater of Gedeh, from which the subterranean forces usually 

 throw up, not red-hot lava-streams, but from time to time 

 tremendous stone and mud currents, which, rushing down the 

 steep flanks of the mountain, overrun and destroy everything 

 around. 



About 10 A.M. we reached Kandang Badak, or the spot 

 where rhinoceroses assemble, which is the second station, 

 7200 feet above sea-level. Solitary specimens of the for- 

 midable animals which liave given their name to this place 

 are still met with here ; but a troop of some hundred men, 

 accompanied by almost as many horses, must necessarily 

 make such a din in the usually solitary forest, as at once to 

 account for our being unable by personal observation to speak 

 as to whether it deserves the name it has received. The 

 rhinoceros, despite his immense size, is a shy, timid animal, 

 who flees before man, and only attacks him when fairly com- 

 pelled to do so in self-defence. The Pasanggrahan erected 

 at this spot has several times already been burnt down by 

 red-hot stones ejected from Gredeli. Here the path divides, 

 one branch leading to the still active crater of Gedeh, which 

 can only be reached on foot, the other leading to the summit 

 of Pangerango. For the second time we clianged horses, 

 and now had the last bit of the way before us — the steep, 

 almost precipitous, cone of Pangerango. It was enveloped 

 in thick clouds, and it was only by the short windings of 

 the path we could realize that we were riding up an Isolated 



