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A NATUJULISrS WANDEBINGS 



raise strange reflections in 



tlie breast of a 



of waiting for the liorses for 



the 



could not but 

 European traveller. 



As still another day 

 continuance of our journey — to the kingdom of Bibif ufu — had 

 to be passed here, I was not disappointed at the opportunity 

 thus afforded of increasing my herbarium along the slopes 

 of Rusconna, whose summit commanded a view of both seas 



"feto 



the north, and the Tassi- 



manni or male sea (as the natives have named them), to the 

 south — and of the peak of Kabalaki, the highest mountain 

 of all Eastern Timor. The mountains of Tursktiin were every- 

 where covered with a rich carpet of green grass, which gave 

 them a most pleasant and fertile appearance, and on which 

 thousands of sheep might be pastured with great profit. 



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