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"jack-fruit," whicli very closely resembles the bread- 

 fruit. Sometimes it attains a weight of nearly sev- 

 enty-five pounds, so that one is a good load for a coo- 

 lie. The only part which the natives eat is a sweet, 

 pulpy substance enveloping each seed. 



June \^th. — ^This morning the gigantic mountain 

 on Bali, Gunung Agung, or " The Great Mountain," 

 towered up abeam of us against the southern sky. 

 According to IVIi'. Crawford it attains an elevation of 

 twelve thousand three hundred and seventy-nine feet, 

 or four hundred and thirty-three feet higher than the 

 far-famed Peak of Teneriffe. 



These mountains are only a continuation of the 

 chain which traverses Java, and Bali may be regarded 

 as almost a part of Java, as it has quite the same flora 

 and fauna, and is only separated from that island by 

 a narrow strait. Here the Asiatic fauna of Sumatra, 

 Borneo, and Java reaches its most eastern boundary. 

 On Lombok, the next island eastward, a wholly dif- 

 ferent fauna is seen, having well-marked affinities 

 with that of Australia. According to the traditions 

 of the Javanese, Sumatra, Java, Bali, Lombok, and 

 Sum])a^va, were all formerly united, and afterward 

 separated into nine different parts, and when three 

 thousand rainy reasons shall have passed away they 

 will be reunited. The dates of these separations are 

 given as follows : 



Palembang (the eastern end of Sumatra) from 

 Java, A. D. 1192. 



Bali from Balembangan (the eastern end of Java), 

 A. D. 1282. 



Lombok from Sumbawa, a. d. 1350. 



