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splendid fruit and poultry. Here 1 saw a perfectly 

 white cock without a black spot, standing three feet 

 high, fi-om comb to spur, — a magnificent bird, ])ut no 

 money I could offer would induce the owner to part 

 with him. 



The country around is undulating and well wooded, 

 more like an English park than a tropical landscape, 

 and a pleasant feature in this part of the island is the 

 frequency of turf avenues lined with the graceful 

 bamboo. Magellang has a population of 34,000 

 natives, lies 1,400 feet above sea level, and is con- 

 sidered one of the healthiest towns of Java, although 

 rain is said to fall here nearly every day of the year. 

 An exceedingly clean and comfortalile hotel readily 

 recompensed me for the tremendous wetting I had 

 received, and whatever symptoms of fever there were 

 on my arrival, they soon gave way to prompt 

 treatment under my host's judicious advice. I never 

 slept sounder, and woke next morning quite ready 

 to continue my journey. At noon I started for 

 Ambarrawa, a large fortress built in 1831, and 

 occupied by 3,000 soldiers of every complexion, — the 

 fair Dutchman, the bronze Malay, the black African, 

 and any number of nondescripts, — all fighting against 

 the effect of a fever-stricken locality, surrounded as it 

 is by marshes, which also gradually undermine the 



