THE HILL PONIES. 7 1 



ascended the outer wall at its lowest point where its height 

 is not above three or four hundred feet ; the wind had risen, 

 and the fine sand cut my face considerably. I noticed 

 the tracks of a wild boar, it must have been a very solitary 

 boar indeed to have chosen such a country to travel over. 



I was much struck with the hill ponies we had on this 

 trip. They are very small, about the size of, perhaps a trifle 

 larger, than Shetland ponies, but very powerful and enduring. 

 Some of these ponies from the neighbouring islands are 

 splendid thoroughbred looking animals ; four of them belong- 

 ing to my host of the Mill (Mr. Etty) were bright bays, and 

 as handsome as they could be : we drove them in a light 

 carriage and they went like the wind. 



We descended the other side of the mountain to a bun- 

 galow situated on a delightful spot in an opening between the 

 mountains on the road to Probolingoo. A pensioned Dutch 

 soldier was in charge. We were capitally housed and fed, 

 and I remember a dish of peaches being particularly good. 

 The next morning we descended to the foot of the mountains 

 where we found the above named ponies and carriage, and 

 were at Monolangan Mill by noon. 



Before leaving the eastern part of the island I made an 

 excursion to the Lake of Ranio Clakka, a lovely piece of 

 water supposed to have been the crater of an extinct volcano, 

 surrounded on all sides by a dense forest, from which rises 

 to the height of about 4,000 feet, the almost inaccessible 

 precipices and pyramidal summit of the Lamongan. This 

 volcano, although always emitting smoke, seldom breaks out 

 into eruption ; when however this does occur, it is always 

 preceded by the summit becoming extremely pointed. When 

 I made my visit this was the case, but although the mountain 



