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merit in the rotation of crops might be kept in continual 

 cultivation. Eice is now grown on them for three or 

 four years in succession, when they are left fallow for 

 the same period, after which rice or maize can be again 

 grown. Good rice produces thirty-fold, and coffee trees 

 continue bearing abundantly for ten or fifteen years, with- 

 out any manure and with scarcely any cultivation. 



I was delayed a day by incessant rain, and then pro- 

 ceeded to Panghu, which I reached just before the daily 

 rain began at 11 a.m. After leaving the summit level of 

 the lake basin, the road is carried along the slope of a fine 

 forest ravine. The descent is a long one, so that I estimated 

 the village to be not more than 1,500 feet above the sea, yet 

 I found the morning temperature often 69°, the same as 

 at Tondano at least 600 or 700 feet higher. I was pleased 

 with the appearance of the place, which had a good deal 

 of forest and wild country around it ; and found prepared 

 for me a little house consisting only of a verandah and a 

 back room. This was only intended for visitors to rest in, 

 or to pass a night, but it suited me very well. I was so 

 unfortunate, however, as to lose both my hunters just at 

 this time. One had been left at Tondano with fever 

 and diarrhoea, and the other was attacked at Langowan 

 with inflammation of the chest, and as his case looked 

 rather bad I had him sent back to Menado. The people 

 here were all so busy with their rice-harvest, which it was 



