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and beautifully polished and turned. Dr. Solewiju Gelpke, 

 the director of " tlie cultures " in Java, has formed at great cost 

 a splendid collection of the implements of the stone age of the 

 island, some of which I had the pleasure of examining on my 

 way home in 1883. Of the beautiful workmanship of the 

 early Javanese one or two fine specimens are to be seen in the 

 ethnological collection in the British Museum. 



In the village of Tjipanas, in the Tjiberang valley, distant 

 only a few miles from Sadjira, I spent a week. The village 



om 



from 



140° r. The place is permeated with the odour of sulphur 

 rising from the springs, uhich had been dug out into cisterns, 

 round which a crowd of sufferers from long distances were 

 constantly seated, bathing their diseased and ulcerated limbs 



and rheumatic joints. 



An abrupt hill which overshadowed the village, rising up to 

 about 1000 feet above the sea, reminded me, in the way ]n 

 which it was composed of great blocks of disrupted rock lying 

 in all positions and at every angle one on another, ot the 

 titanic structure of the hills of Cintra to the north of Lisbon. 

 Both probably owe their disintegrated condition to the con- 

 stant earthquakes by which they are shaken. Growing on 

 the thin soil on the tops of the rocks I gathered one of the most 

 conspicuous of ground orchids, a tall white-flowered species o 

 Calanthe, nearlv all of whose flowers I was surpnsed to find 

 had been shed 'without being fertilised ; while m the cre^.ce 

 grew luxuriant Osmundas (0. javanica) closely resemblm, 



the Eoyal-ferns found at home. , , , ,, „ .-ntprp^tin- 



Tn tl . vonn. forest on its slopes I shot three interest n 



In the young forest on 



birds ; 



galeri 



eoc Ws. finally ^f^^X^^^^^^^^^ - ^ 



Ttna /.r.T,.^^t in nssprfmsr its buuiatran An\ \^ , . , 



was correct in asseiiiuj^ ...^^^^ i. nf the Javan bird as was 

 a distinct species, and not the ^^^f ,f ^^^^ ,^ (J..n. 



supposed by Mr. Elliott; the otl- t^ ^a.r^ ^ ^^^^.^^^ 



turcosa), one of the finest plumagcd birds^ o nc 



is highly prized in Europe for V^^^^^ t U 

 +^.^r.^^■ „^ri -[^v^^at nre deep ^el\en uiai-«.. 



throat and breast are deep 



back and tail are of glistening tur(j 



