IN SUMATRA. i;39 



CIIArTER II. 



SOJOURN IN THE LAMPONGS — Continued. 



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Move towards the Tcngamiis Monntaiu — Euttorflics found on the journey 

 thitlicr— Tiohmomon — The Balai, a characteristic institution — I)cscont 

 of the Lampongers — Their Language — Divisiuus of the province — U'itlcs 

 and dignities — Ornamonts — Festivities and amusements — ^Mnrria^^c 

 customs — Slove to Penan.figungnn — Petroleum and paraflln matches 

 Pennnggnnirnn — Great trees — Interesting plants and animals — The 

 Siamang — Move to Terratas — Ascent of the Tengamus Mountain — Its 

 llora and fanna — PiCturn to Pcnanggungan and to Batavia. 



In the nii(l<lle o^ August I moveil my camp nortli-westwanlf? 

 to the village of Penanggnngan towards the Jiigh peak of 

 the Tengamus at rlie top of tlie Semangka Bay. I followed a 

 native forest path, reported to be good, hut whieli turned out 

 to be an execrable tunnel through a grove of low rattan-palms, 

 whose delicate but unbrcukuble tendrils, hanging down on all 

 sides, studded with the sharpest and most unrelenting hooks, 

 were ever suddenly fetching me up by a lasso round my neck 

 or body from which no amount of ill-natured tugging or pulling 

 would avail to relieve me, and from whose thorny grapnels I 

 could release myself oi]ly by yielding, and stepping calmly 

 backwards. Here an immense tree-trunk, six or seven feet in 

 diameter, lay athwart the path ; there a gigantic mud batli, 

 the wallowing hole of a herd of elephants, in which my porters 

 sank to the waist and sometimes to the armpits. 



On the way I netted a large Ornithoptera {0. amjyJirysus), 

 and the first known female of Amesia jnvenis, a day-flying 

 moth which mimics Trqmchroh mulciltry while by the margin 

 of a small str^^am I cauglit Lcpiocireus viresccns, which derives 

 protection from mimicking the habits and the appearance of 

 a dragon-fly, in a crowd of which it is often to be found. 

 In form it reminded me of the European genus Nemnptcra. It 

 flits over the top of the water fluttering its tails, je^rking up and 

 down just as dragon-flies do when flicking the water with the 



