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broken-down lip of a crater, regularly constructed of pillar- 

 like masses of tracliyte, each sundered from the column im- 

 mediately adjoining, beneath which was the smoking cone 

 of tlie active region of the crater, a bare heap of stone and 

 scoriae, of the utmost variety of colour. Stretching from 

 tlie vast abyss of the crater-ruins, on whose bald slope is 

 situated the cone of the new eruption, there is visible at 

 intervals on either side, far down, until indeed it is lost in 

 the dark gloom of the forest, a bare rocky ravine, full of 

 stones and debris, which the active vent of the crater has 

 from time to time vomited forth. We had on the previous 

 day passed the lower extremity of this stream while riding 

 to Pangerango. 



" But we were not yet at the goal of our wanderings. We 

 still had to climb fr'om this point, and afterwards to scramble 

 up to the siunmit of the active cone. This, however, proved 

 to be much more easy than we had thought when looking at 

 it from below, and we arrived without any disaster at the 

 summit. 



'-'• Here then we were standing upon the edge of a yawning 

 crater, in full acti^dty ! Not a single step forward was it 

 possible for us to make. In front of us lay a funnel-shaped 

 slope, 250 feet in depth, the floor of which was covered with 

 mud, in which stood frequent pools of boiling water of a 

 yellow tinge. The Javanese who accompanied us stated 

 that they had never before seen it so quiet, the crater having 



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