J XATUIiAU.ST'i^ WANDElilNa.H 



CHAPTER 11. 



SOJOUEN AT K08ALA IN BANTAM. 



Leave GenteDg — Nativo blacksmiths at Sat^jira — Htit £]>rmf:? of Tjipanas — 

 Birds and plants at Tji|tft(iaa— Invitatiorilo Kosala— Tim Kosalfl estate 

 — The cwtiouft ciisease LjiIa— The \VHU-wau—Bir«ls— Bees— White aiits 

 — <jreat trees— Long dnarght and its consequences — 'J lie Btmtleia vm- 

 teUrix^ a fungoid hlight And the bn0alt> disease — Flora and FaunJi of 

 Kofiala Mountaim — Singular liviDg artta' ueste aud their develop- 

 ment— Of chidi* at Kosivla and some curions devices for securing self- 

 fertilisation — Aocient remains in the forest — Tho parangs and their, 

 curious rites—Tlie liftihii — ^lidigion and superatitions of the jicople of 

 Bantam — Leave Kosala. 



After a very interesting period spent at Geiiteng, I removed 

 Jurtlier to tlie sontli in search of a station on tbe motmtains, 

 whose distant slopes I could see covered with the great forest 

 which I had never yet beheld ch>se, and under whose shade I 

 had ever had such an intense longing to roam, the charm of 

 whose grandeur, after spending unbroken years in it, remains 

 still as one of the most delightful reminiscences of my 

 regidence in the tropics. Halting for a night at Sadjira I was 

 taken by the chief of the village to see numerous blacksmiths 

 at work in the manufacture of knives and krisses. The 

 bellows used by them in order to give a c^jutiuuous blast was 

 made of two large cylinders of bamboo vertictdly set in the 

 frround, in each of which a piston made of a dense bunch of 

 feathers wound round a rod, was worked alternately, the wind 

 being conducted through a small tube at the bottom of each 

 bamboo, to meet in one pipe before passing below the fire. 



Fande is the Sundanese term for a worker in iron ; the 

 word is of Sanscrit origin, and originally meant " learned." 

 Though this signification is not attached to it by the natives 

 now, the smiths are held in the greatest esteem by them. 

 Before the Bmdu invasion the people of Java used only stone 

 implements and hatchets, often of great cdegance of design 



