OHAP. XVI.] MAROS. 359 



obtained a pass from the Resident, and having hired a 

 boat set off one evening for Maros. My boy Ali was so 

 ill with fever that I was obliged to leave him in the 

 hospital, under the care of my friend the German doctor, 

 and I had to make shift with two new servants utterly 

 ignorant of everything. We coasted along during the 

 night, and at daybreak entered the Maros river, and by 

 three in the afternoon reached the village. I immediately 

 visited the Assistant Resident, and applied for ten men to 

 carry my baggage, and a horse for myself. These were, 

 promised to be ready that night, so that I could start as 

 soon as I liked in the morning. After having taken a cup 

 of tea I took my leave, and slept in the boat. Some of the 

 men came at night as promised, but others did not arrive 

 till the next morning. It took some time to divide my 

 baggage fairly among them, as they all wanted to shirk 

 the heavy boxes, and would seize hold of some light 

 article and march off with it, till made to come back and 

 wait till the whole had been fairly apportioned. At length 

 about eight o'clock all was arranged, and we started for 

 our walk to Mr. M.'s farm. 



The country was at first a uniform plain of burnt-up 

 rice-grounds, but at a few <niles' distance precipitous hills 

 appeared, backed by the lofty central range of the penin- 

 sula. Towards these our path lay, and after having 

 gone six or eight miles the hills began to advance into 



