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height, west of that of Empmig, attaining nearly that 

 height, and in the northeast Gunong Api with its 

 three peaks. Somewhat farther on we rode down 

 into a little valley, where the road ran along the side 

 of a Bmall lake, whose muddy water was of a dirty- 

 white color, and fiom which strong, almost strang- 

 ling, fames of sulphur were rising — a most unearthly 

 place, and one that would remind the traveller of 

 Bunyan's picture of " the Valley of the Shadow of 

 Death," where the way was narrow, and on either 

 hand ever and anon came up flame and smoke in 

 gi'eat ahundance with sparka and hideous noisesJ' 

 In one place a flock of ducks was swimming in this 

 sulphurous pool, and on its margin I noticed a few 

 w^aders running to and fro seeking food. Its banks 

 were mostly covered with ferns, the leaves of which 

 were of a bright red, reminding one of the briUiantly- 

 colored leaves of our maplea in autuum. 



Near the next village, Lahendong, we made a 

 short excursion to the left, up a high but not a 

 steep hill, to see the remarkable lake Linu. The 

 hni is the top of an old volcano, and soon, as we de- 

 scended and turned a sharp point, we found before 

 us the lake now filling the bottom of the crater. On 

 our way down to a house near its edge, we passed 

 a place where much sulphurous gas was escaping. It 

 looked indeed much like the top of a great half- 

 slaked lime-kOn. The lake is about half a mile in 

 diameter^ and has an outlet on the southwest, through 

 a former split in the old crater-walh In most parts 

 the water has a blue color, but in some it has a 

 whitish tinge from gases that rise up through the 



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