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a small village and some gardens. Here there was 

 a very fair hotel, kept by a Dutchman, named Tern- 

 pieman, who spoke no English, but was very civil 

 and obliging. This place is called Tosari, and is 

 well known as a place of resort for invalids requiring 

 the bracing air of the mountains, or for parties of 

 pleasure from Passarouan and the neighbourhood. 

 Here, of course, we found all the necessaries and 

 luxuries of life, and among other things, bread, 

 which we had not seen for the last seven days, as 

 the Javanese substitute for it rice in the plains, and 

 potatoes in the mountains. The hotel is just on the 

 brow of the ledge looking down onto the plains and 

 the sea. It stands in a court-yard, surrounded by 

 a bamboo fence, in which are some other houses for 

 servants. Under a shed, on one side of the court- 

 yard, was a gamelang, or native band, that saluted 

 us with V Rajah datang," as we approached, and 

 played other tunes occasionally during the day.* The 

 village outside was a straggling one along the ridge, 

 and not, as usual, enclosed in a fence. The houses, 

 as in all these mountain villages, were very different 

 from those of the plains. In the latter the houses 

 of the peasantry are composed almost entirely of 

 bamboo, the poles and posts of the stouter pieces of 

 that plant, and the walls generally of split bamboo 

 woven into mats, the roof being thatched with large 

 mats of attop, or the leaves of the Nipah palm. The 

 mountain houses, on the contrary, are built of plank. 

 The posts and beams are made of casuarina, roughly 



