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CHAPTER ir. 



SOJOURN IN THE LAMPONGS — continued. 



Move towards the TeDgamus Moimtaiu — Butterflies found on the journey 

 thither — Tiohmomon — The Balai, a characteristic institution — Descent 

 of the Lampongers — Tlieir Lansuage — Divisions of the province — 'J'itles 

 and dignities — Ornaments — Festivities and amusements — Marriage 

 customs — ^Move to Penanggungan — Petroleum and paraffin matches — 

 Penanggunsnn — Great trees — Interesting plants and animals — The 

 Siamang-^Move to Terratas — Ascent of the Tengamus Mountain — Its 

 flora and fauna — Piotui-n to Penanggungan and to Batavia. 



In the middle o'' August I moved my camp north-westwards 

 to the village of Penanggungan towards the high peak of 

 the Tengamus at the top of the Semangka Bay. I followed a 

 native forest path, reported to be good, but which turned out 

 to be an execrable tunnel through a grove of low rattan-palms, 

 whose delicate but unbreakable tendrils, hanging down on all 

 sides, studded with the sharpest and most unrelenting hooks, 

 were ever suddenly fetching me up by a lasso round my neck 

 or body from which no amount of ill-natured tugging or pulling 

 would avail to relieve me, and from whose thorny grapnels I 

 could release myself only by yielding, and stepping calmly 

 backwards. Here an immense tree-trunk, six or seven feet in 

 diameter, lay athwart the path ; there a gigantic mud bath, 

 the wallowing hole of a herd of elephants, in which my porters 

 sank to the waist and sometimes to the armpits. 



On the way I netted a large Ornithoptera (0. amphrysus), 

 and the first known female of Amesia juvenis, a day-flying 

 moth which mimics Trepsichrds miilciber, while by the margin 

 of a small stream I caught Leptocircus virescens, which derives 

 protection from mimicking the habits and the appearance of 

 a dragon-fly, in a crowd of which it is often to be found. 

 In form it reminded me of the European genus Nemopiera. It 

 flits over the top of the water fluttering its tails, jerking up and 

 down just as dragon-flies do when flicking the water with the 



