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columns of a sort of porphyritic green-stone, and the same 

 evening reached Tjililui, the chief town of the district named 

 Rongga, owing to its richness in petrifactions. Not greater 

 was our surprise at our exceedingly hospitable reception, 

 than at beholding, as we sat down to our evening meal in 

 the Pasanggrahan where we were stopping, a huge table 

 drawn forth, loaded with petrifactions and geological speci- 

 mens, which the Wedanah had collected, and which, classified 

 according to a chart of the district which he had himself 

 prepared, he now placed at our disposal. The name of this 

 spirited Sundanese is Mas Djaja Bradja, Wedanah of Tjililui. 

 '' On the 20th we inspected the spot itself where these 

 are fomid. By daybreak we were en route for the chalk- 

 kilns of Liotji Tjangkang, where a coral bank, abounding in 

 petrifactions, lies full in view from the summit of an adjoining 

 eminence. Hence we directed our steps in a S.E. direction, 

 getting deeper into the mountains, in the neighbourhood of 

 Gonnong Gatu, renowned for the numbers of tigers which 

 range the immense wilderness of atlang grass {Imperata 

 Altang\ which now forms the covering of these mountains, 

 utterly denuded as they are of their original vegetation, and 

 in which they find plenty of prey among the stags, wild 

 boars, and buffaloes. Hunting however was not our object, 

 but the succession of chasms, 100 feet deep, worn through the 

 soft pumice and trachytic tufas by the action of the Tji- 

 Lanang and its little tributary streams; First we had to 

 scramble down to the confluence of the Tji-Burial and 



