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rounded by steep, whitish-looking cliffs, and covered 

 with dense wood. It is, I believe, uninhabited, and 

 said to abound with snakes and tigers. 



As it was now getting hot, we soon cantered back 

 to Tampa, where we found an excellent cold break- 

 fast laid out, that had been sent down by the worthy 

 Ron go of Lamajang. After this the attendants 

 brought us mats and pillows, and advised us to take 

 a siesta during the heat of the day ; but as they all 

 sat round us, and continued chattering in a low 

 tone of voice, we found this impracticable, and about 

 two o'clock determined to go out peacock shooting. 

 They took us to a neighbouring wood, and through 

 some old coffee plantations, where there were plenty 

 of peacocks, but they kept on the tops of trees so 

 lofty as generally to be out of shot; Evans, however, 

 brought down one. We soon got knocked up with 

 scrambling through thick jungle in the heat of the 

 day, and returned to the pandopo, all except Hill, 

 who had gone in chase of a deer, and succeeded in 

 shooting one of the kind called " kedang." This was 

 a beautiful little animal of extreme delicacy and 

 elegance of form. We returned to Lamajang by the 

 same road we had come, and on our arrival at the 

 passangerang were saluted by a native band of 

 music, which the Rongo had brought up from his 

 house for our gratification. This band consisted of 

 a kind of fiddle with two strings, with a cocoa-nut 

 covered with parchment for the sounding-board, 

 and several instruments of percussion, both of wood 



