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extreme of damp, wet, and cloudy weather, which was 

 equally unfavourable. During the month which I spent 

 in the interior of West Java, I never had a really hot fine 

 day throughout. It rained almost every afternoon, or 

 dense mists came down from the, mountains, which equally 

 stopped collecting, and rendered it most difficult to dry my 

 specimens, so that I really had no chance of getting a fair 

 sample of Javanese entomology. 



By far the most interesting incident in my visit to Java 

 was a trip to the summit of the Pangerango and Gedeh 

 mountains ; the former an extinct volcanic cone about 

 10,000 feet high, the latter an active crater on a lower 

 portion of the same mountain range. Tchipanas, about 

 four miles over the Megamendong Pass, is at the foot of 

 the mountain. A small country house for the Governor- 

 General and a branch of the Botanic Gardens are situated 

 here, the keeper of which accommodated me with a bed 

 for a night. There are many beautiful trees and shrubs 

 1 planted hei-e, and large quantities of European vegetables 

 are grown for the Governor-General's table. By the side 

 of a little torrent that bordered the garden, quantities of 

 orchids were cultivated, attached to the trunks of trees, or 

 suspended from the branches, forming an interesting open- 

 air orchid-house. As I intended to stay two or three 

 nights on the mountain I engaged two coolies to carry my 

 baggage, and with my two hunters we started early the 



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