/.V SUMATUA, l.'JO 



CHAPTER II. 



SOJOURN IN THE LAMPOKGS — continued. 



Mtivo towards (be Tungaiiius Munnmii) — Buttt^rfiics fuund ou t!ie j*»urncy 

 thirhor — Tiolimoiwrv — The Bsilivi^ u eisftracteiitsiic institalbn — iJcsmit 

 of the T.f»miv>nger!?^ — Their iair'iim<ic — Bivisumsof the ] mviiicf^'l iik'rt 

 and digniiies — OnmTm'nts — 'Festivities and atnitmncMits — Marriage 

 custom* — Move to renaofr^iiUL-rKi— Petrcliiim and pnrallir! matches— 

 IVnangajimiffln — G reat trt en — Uii cresiiDg piautjs mid iitiiiimla — Tin* 

 Sitimaiit; — Move to TerratEU* — Attet-rit nf the 'JVijijaniHii Moutjfaiii — Ita 

 flora and faima— Htjtiirij to I\<n'»figg«ngari nnd to Erilavia. 



In the mitltlle of August I moved my camp north-westwards 

 to the village of Penanggtiii gan towards the high peak of 

 the Tengamiis at the top of the Semangk» Bay. I followed a 

 native forest path, reported to bo good, but which turned out 

 to be an execmble tunnel through a grove of low nittan-palms, 

 whose delicate but uiibreakalile tend rib, banging dow^n on all 

 sides, studded with the sharpest and most unrelenting hooks, 

 were ever siiddeniy fetching me up by a lasso round my neck 

 or body from which no amount of ill-natured tugging or pulling 

 livcjuld avail to relieve me, and fr<>in whoso thorny grapnels I 

 could release myself only by yielding, and stepping calmly' 

 backtrards!. Here an immense tree-trunk, sis or seven feet itj 

 diameter, lay athwart the path; there a gigantic mud bath, 

 the wallowing hole of a herd of elephants, in which my porters 

 sank to the waist and sometimes to the armpits. 



On the way I netted a largo Ornithoptera (0. amphri/susj^ 

 ant] the first known female of Armma juvenis, a day-flying 

 moth which mimics Trej)sichmB 7nuIeiJ)er^ while by the margin 

 of a small stream I caught Leptocireus virescens, which derives 

 ]»rotection from mimicking the habits and the appearance of 

 a dragon-fly » in a crowd of which it is often to be found. 

 In form it reminded me of the European genus Neimptera, It 

 flits over the top of the water fluttering its tails Jerking up and 

 down jnyt as dragon-flicks dt* when flicking the water with the 



