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broke away this morning as tlie ma rose, and the 

 sky IB now perfectly clear. The cmtroleur provided 

 me with a horse, and a Jmkam tim accompanied me 

 as a guide. Our course was nearly west, and soon 

 the road became very steep, and estremely slippery 

 from the late rain. As we rose, the %'iew over the 

 plateau beneath us widened, until we wound round 

 the mountain to the little village of Runikan, the 

 highest mgri in this laud. The head of this village 

 guided us to the top of a neighboring peak, where I 

 found a large part of the llinahassa spread out be- 

 fore me like a great map. From the point where I 

 stood, there stretched to the south a high mountain- 

 chain, forming the western border of the lake of 

 Tondano. A little more to the east were seen the 

 lake fill' below, and the level land along a paii; of its 

 shores, while on the opposite side of the lake rose 

 the mountains that form the other end of the chain 

 on which I was standing. This chain curves like a 

 horseshoe, the open part being turned toward the 

 north. At the same point where all the details of 

 this plateau were compiised in a single \dew, by 

 tumijig a little toward the north, I could look down 

 the outer flanks of this elevated region away to the 

 low, distant ocean -shore, where the blue sea was 

 breaking into white, S2>arkling surt'. A little farther 

 toward the north rose the lofty peak of Mount 

 Klabat, covered with a thick mantle of fleecy clouds, 

 which had a hue of ermine in the bright light. This 

 mantle was slowly raised and lowered by the invisi- 

 ble hand of the strong west wind. Beneath it, low 

 on the sides of the mountain, was seen a line of trees 



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