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ence of level of 1247 feet, making Kedimangan 

 1412 feet above the sea. When we reached Kan- 

 dangan, indeed, which was merely a few small houses 

 on a rising ground about a mile farther on, we found 

 the view very extensive, looking over all the undu- 

 lating forest land below, and the plain of Lamajang 

 with the southern sea and the island of Nusa Baron 

 in the distance. A little beyond this the road 

 divided into two, and became much narrower and 

 steeper, among some very extensive coffee-planta- 

 tions. We here saw two tiger traps, long, low, narrow 

 boxes made of stout posts and young trees, with a 

 falling door at one end which drops on the bait 

 being touched, which is hung up inside at the other. 

 It was, in fact, nothing but a large mouse-trap. A 

 good sized tiger would barely have been able to 

 crawl in, and I should have thought would have 

 been much too cunning to enter. They are, how- 

 ever, sometimes caught in them, when they are 

 killed with spears thrust between the trees of which 

 the trap is formed. For two or three miles, we now 

 rode along a narrow lane with very high banks 

 over an abruptly undulating country. The banks 

 were covered with beautiful plants, among which 

 we found a species of wild raspberry, some of the 

 fruit of which was ripe but rather insipid. This 

 deep lane reminded me of those of Devonshire, 

 except that the vegetation was more exuberant. We 

 passed one or two small detached cottages, but soon 

 got above the coffee-grounds, and the lane began to 



