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by the mass of dead bodies consolidating the marshy 

 nature of the ground ! His graphic, although 

 perhaps not very delicate, remark, had probably more 

 reference to another much larger fortress commenced 

 in 1857 at Ban-jou-Birou, a position even more 

 unhealthy than that of Ambarrawa, The former was 

 completely destroyed in July, 1865, by the eruption 

 of the volcano " Merbabou," which killed the greater 

 portion of its garrison. 



Ambarrawa, notwithstanding its bad repute, has 

 within easy reach a pleasant, cool village with a few 

 European houses scattered about ; thence, as far as 

 Oenarang, the sanatorium of Samarang, 2,000 feet 

 above the sea, the cultivation consists principally of 

 rice in the valley, coffee on the hills, and fruit 

 everywhere. Here I passed the night, and on the 

 following morning I took leave of the Kadoe, the 

 gem of Java, unrivalled for the productiveness of its 

 soil, the beauty of its scenery, and the finest Buddhist 

 ruin in the world ; — the very cattle and ponies in this 

 favoured region are larger and better shaped than any in 

 Java. As regards the latter, by-the-bye, some of tlie 

 Moluccas produce the strongest and prettiest I have 

 seen anywhere. The Resident at Djokjokarta had a 

 pair of fawn-coloured ponies with a black strijje down 

 the entire length of the spine, and black mane and 



