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and beantifully polished and turned. Dr. Solewiju GelpkeJ 

 the director of " tlie cultui'eii " In Java, lias formed at great eoB^f 

 a splendid collection of tiie implements of the stone age of tM 

 island, somo of whieh 1 bud the pieasure of examining on my 

 way home in 1883, Of the beantifnl workmanship of the 

 early Javane.sie one or two line specimens are to be seen in the 

 ethnological collection in the British Museum, 



In the viUage of Tjipanas, in the Tjiberang valley, di^timt 

 only a few miles from Sadjira, I spent a week. The village 

 derives its name froni the hot'Sprimjs (which the name signifies) 

 that issue from the grouml tliere at a temperature of VS7^- 

 140* F. The place is permeated with the odour of sulphur 

 rising from the springs, which liad l>een dug out into cisterns, 

 round which a crowil of sutTerers from long distances wore 

 constantly seated, bathing their diseased and ulcenited limbs 

 and rhenmatiodjjoirits. 



An abrupt hill which overshadowed the village, rising up to 

 about 1000 feet above the sea, reminded me, in the way in 

 which it wiis composed of great blocks of disrupted rock lying 

 in all positions and at every angle one on another, of the 

 titanic structure of the hills of Cintra to the north of Lisbon. 

 Both probably owe their disintegrated condition to the con- 

 stant earthrpiakes by which they are shaken. Growing on 

 the thin soil on the tops of the rocks 1 gathered on© of the most 

 conspicuous of ground orchids, a tall white-flowered Si>ecies of 

 Calanthe^ nearly all of whose flowers 1 was surprised to find 

 had been shed without being fertilised ; while in the crevices 

 grew luxuriant Osmundas (0. javanka) closely resembling 

 the Etjy id -ferns found at home. 



In the young forest on its slopes I shot three interesting 

 birds; a male and female of the Platyhpkm gahncuIaiuB^ a 

 crow»like bird with a handsome black crest resembling u 

 cockatoo's, finally settling the question that Count Salvadori 

 was correct in asserting its Suniatran ally (P. coronatm) to be 

 a distinct species, and not the female of the Javan bird as was 

 supposed by 3Ir. Elliott j the other the Fairy Blue-bird {Irem 

 iuTcosa)^ one of the finest plumaged birda of the island, which 

 is highly prixe^d in Europe for plumassiers' purposes. Its wings, 

 throat and breast are deep velvety black, while its head, 

 back and tail are of glistening turquoise-blue, as if the colour 



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