76 VIEW FROM THE TENg'gER. 



little animals too heavily, so we dismounted, and 

 climbed the rest of the way on foot. Arrived at 

 the summit, the road passed through a narrow gap 

 in the top of the ridge and then issued out onto the 

 crest of one of the great outer buttresses, or lateral 

 ridges, that lean against the mountain sides. Here 

 we had a most glorious view, as we found ourselves 

 on the northern face of the Teng'ger, and had the 

 plain of Probolingo and Passarouan immediately 

 below us, at a depth of 6 or 7 5 OO0 feet, and the whole 

 line of coast up to Madura and the strait of Sou- 

 rabaya, with the delta of the Kediri, spread like a 

 map beneath us. We could discern the houses of 

 Passarouan, and the cultivated plain around it, with 

 its square fields of different kinds of crops, looking 

 like a carpet richly chequered with various shades 

 of green, yellow, and purple. On each side of us, 

 broken ridges, richly clothed with wood, pitched 

 steeply down into a fold of snow-white cloud, that 

 clung to the sides of the mountains, and crept 

 stealthily up the ravines in wreaths of mist, that 

 gradually dissipated as they approached the summits. 

 As we proceeded along the sinuosities of the moun- 

 tain on our narrow winding ledge, that now began 

 rapidly to descend, we caught glimpses of Mount 

 Arjuno, with its three peaks risingvery grandly out of 

 a basal ring of cloud, about twenty-five miles distant 

 on our left. After some long and steep descents, we 

 reached a point where the buttress we were on 

 widened and became more level, affording space for 



