CHAPTER IV. 



CIGAR MANUFACTORY — RUINS OF SINGHA SARI — NATIVE 

 MARKETS — BATU — HOT WELL — ANTAN G — PLEASANT AND 

 FERTILE SITUATION— EXCELLENT HORSES — SOLITARY RIDE 

 DOWN THE VALLEY — WONOSALAM — VALLEY OF THE 



KEDIRI DISTANT MOUNTAINS — - MAJOAGO MORTALITY 



AMONG THE HORSES — RUINS OF MAJOPAHIT — ARRIVE AT 

 MAJOKERTO— LOCKS ON THE KEDIRI— RETURN TO SOUR- 

 ABAYA. 



November 21, 1844. — As soon as the afternoon 

 rain had ceased, we walked out to look at the town, 

 leaving Hill, however, in bed, as he had become 

 very unwell. I eventually made the height of the 

 hotel at Malang, 1428 feet above the sea, so that 

 the mean height of this district may be taken at 

 between 1400 to 1500 feet. Notwithstanding this 

 altitude, and its being thirty miles distant from the 

 sea-shore, cocoa-nuts were abundant, perfect groves 

 of that and other palms surrounding the town, and 

 overshadowing the roads between the kampongs. 

 These roads were now rather muddy and ill-kept, 

 as were also the court-yards and approaches to 

 several of the houses, whether native, Chinese, or 

 European. The Chinese seemed to be here in 

 great numbers, and we went over a considerable 

 cigar manufactory belonging to one of them. Ma- 

 lang is the principal place for this manufacture in 



