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a thin fkin which had been glued on them : bc- 

 fides, the ftirrups ufed by the Javanefe were too 

 fliort for uSj :\nd it had not been pofTible to let 

 them down, which had put us in a very trou- 

 bleibme polhirc : accordingly that day, the 

 14th, we did not go far from our habitation, 

 but the following day we crolled a fpacc of a 

 demi-myriameter in a plain already in a great 

 meafure inundated ; we then reached the 

 mountains of Prau. The Tomogon of Banguil 

 went thither on horfeback, followed by up- 

 wards of a hundred horfemcn pretty well 

 mounted. We found him in the forcil, where 

 he was waiting for us ; but being little ac- 

 quainted, no doubt, with the iimph: nMiiiicr in 

 which naturalids travel, he had caufed ciuiirs 

 to be brouo;ht for us to lit down it the fuj-.mit 

 of a mountain, whence we difcovered tinough 

 the trees a great extent of country, whicli he 

 told us was in his dependency : this chief leing 

 deiirous of aliording us a Hill better viev, of u, 

 immediately ordered tlie tops of a great many 

 teak-wood trees to be cut off, and we faw 

 with pain that this momentary gratiiicaiicn 

 colt him upwards of a hundred of thclc iinc 

 trees. 



Peacocks were very common in this fored, 

 V. hicli we traverfed m evcr\ dire^'rion ; we li\ot 

 icvcral of them, Amoiig the colicCiion of 



plants 



