448 A NATURALIST'S WANDERINGS 



could not but raise strange reflections in the breast of a 

 European traveller. 



As still another day of waiting for the horses for the 

 continuance of our journey — to the kingdom of Bibigupu — had 

 to be passed here, I was not disappointed at the opportunity 

 thus afforded of increasing my herbarium along the slopes 

 of Eusconna, whose summit commanded a view of both seas 

 — ^the Tassi-feto or female sea on the north, and the Tassi- 

 manni or male sea (as the natives have named them), to the 

 southland of the peak of Kabalaki, the highest mountain 

 of all Eastern Timor. The mountains of Turskain were every- 

 where covered with a rich carpet of green grass, which gave 

 them a most pleasant and fertile appearance, and on which 

 thousands of sheep might be pastured with great profit. 



