From P'ort Portal to Biijono'olo — Mobukii Vallev, 



seems primeval, of* some period when forms were uncertain and 

 provisory. The silence is profound, and the absence of any 

 sio-n of life completes the imaire of a remote acre before the 

 beginning of animal existence, such as might have been those 

 forests which have given us the strata of coal fossils. 



Faint and indistinct tracks on the moss and the fallen 

 trunks indicate the way. Tlie travellers proceed, leaping and 



l-Or.ELIAS IN THE HEATH FOREST. 



l)alaii('ing themselves upon the slippery trunks, in continual 

 danger of putting their foot in a deep hole and falling in the 

 openings between the trunks, \Ahence they would be likely to 

 emerge witli liiokcu lunies or other injuries. The Bakonjos, 



