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have ever since been the very type of beauty, the 

 remembrance of which will, I hope, dwell with me 

 as long as I exist. 



At about eight miles from Antang we turned off 

 to the right through a kind of court-yard, and 

 crossed the bed of the brook, and then by a narrow 

 winding path climbed up the right bank of the 

 glen to a small village called Dodo, where we 

 found breakfast prepared for us, but could get no 

 change of horses. 



Here the Widono of Antang took leave of us, ; with 

 many thanks on our part and good wishes on his, 

 and we proceeded by a narrow and rather devious 

 path, up hill and down dale, apparently coasting 

 along the flanks of the mountains. We crossed 

 many brooks hurrying down towards the plains, 

 passed through a succession of lofty, untouched 

 forests, groves of bamboo, large coffee -plantations 

 shaded by tall trees, and open patches of cultivation 

 here and there, till we came out on some broad 

 slopes of alang alang. Climbing up the side of one 

 of these by a steep and slippery path, we found a 

 small pandopo on the top, built, apparently, as a 

 resting-place for the traveller, and that he might 

 have a shelter from the sun while he sat on this 

 open brow to enjoy the fresh air and the noble pros- 

 pect before him. We found we had been gradually 

 working round the Arjuno, and were now on one 

 of the lower ridges that project from its western 

 base. Ridge rising over ridge, immediately behind 



