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smoke, that when the sun had sunk behind the ser- 

 rated crest of the Barizan, the whole horizon for 

 twenty degrees and to a considerable height was 

 lighted up with one unvarying golden glow. Here 

 the Barizan is composed of four or five j)arallel 

 ranges, which rise successively one above the other 

 until the last forms the highest elevation in that 

 chain. These different ranges were of various shades 

 of color ; that the nearest to us, or the lowest, being 

 the darkest, and those above it of a lighter and 

 lighter hue up to the highest range, which had a 

 bright border of gold along its crest ; and fi'om that 

 line to where we stood the air seemed filled with a 

 jiurple dust. As the daylight faded, the fires in the 

 tall grass on the hill-sides became more distinct ; 

 sometimes advancing in a broad, continuous band, 

 and sometimes breaking up into an irregular, beaded 

 line. Soon afterward the moon rose as charmingly 

 in the east as the sun just gloriously set in the west. 

 Fii'st a diftuse light appeared along the mountain- 

 tops and ^v^hitened the fleecy cumuli hovering over 

 their summits. Then that part of the sky grew 

 brighter and brighter until the light of the full moon 

 fell like a silver cascade over the serrated edge of the 

 high mountains and rested on the tops of the hills 

 below. An assistant resident is stationetl here at 

 Foi-t Elout, who has charge of this fruitful valley of 

 Mandeling, which is wholly inhabited by the Battas. 

 The territory between this valley and the "west coast 

 is also inhabited by this rude people. The Resident 

 explained to us the trouble taken by the government 

 •lud the expense it ^vas incurring, in order to teach 



