CHAPTER III. 



EXTREME COLD OF 50 Q FAHR. — CLIMB UP THE MOUNTAIN 

 — VIEW FROM THE I»ER IDER — THE SANDY SEA AND 

 THE BROMO — WONOSARI — TOSARI — DESCRIPTION OF A 

 MOUNTAIN HOUSE — VIEW OF THE ARJUNO AND THE 

 PLAIN OF SOURABAYA — RIDE DOWN TO PARIS — OBSEQUI- 

 OUSNESS OF THE WIDONO — RUINS OF DJAGO AND KEDAL — 

 RIDE TO MALANG. 



Nov. 18, 1844. — I was awoke this morning 

 before daylight, by the feeling of extreme cold, 

 although the thermometer, in the open air, at the 

 earliest dawn, did not sink below 50°. The sun- 

 rise was magnificent, from the gorgeous colours that 

 spread over the upper surfaces of the clouds, a little 

 below us. These were, however, too thick to allow 

 us to see any of the lower country. We found 

 Lodo Ombo to be at the head of two saucer-like 

 hollows, on a ledge of the mountains, which on one 

 side plunged steeply down into the clouds, and on 

 the other rose into broken ridges and pinnacles that 

 we had yet to climb. The hollows seemed well 

 cultivated, with gardens of vegetables and a few 

 fields of grass, and here and there a scattered house 

 or shed apart from the kampong, (or " dasar," as I 

 believe a village is called in the mountains). This 

 " dasar" was surrounded by a rude fence, entered 

 by one gateway. 



