CHAPTER XHL 



TO THE LAITD OF TTfP CANNIBALS* 



Fehrmry %%tli, — At 7 a. m. rode down tlie edge 

 of the plateau to tlie bottom of a deep rav^ine, and 

 tlien climbed up the opposite ridge. Here we met 

 all the rajahs and their attendants in the vicinity, and 

 again descended to the bottom of a second ravine to 

 the little village of Pisang. Ab the way was exceed- 

 ingly rough, I preferred to ride a nice horee the con- 

 troleur had given me, to being jolted in the carnage. 

 Beyond Pisang our road lay in a narrow valley, and, 

 as the sky was cleai' and the neighboring hills pre- 

 vented any breeze firom reaching ns, we seemed to be 

 at the focns of a gi-eat bm-ning lens. In the thick 

 woods on either hand troops of Wge, black monkey** 

 kept up a hooting or trumpeting, their prolonged 

 cries sounding exactly like a score of amateurs practise 

 ing on trombones. In some places the din they made 

 was quite deafening. In one place the road passed 

 through a deep cut through strata, composed of sand 

 and conglomerate, which probably once filled the 

 whole valley. From Pisang, which is at an eleva- 

 tion of seventeen hundred feet, we continued to de- 

 scend until we came to the small valley of Bondyol, 

 which is only seven hundred and forty feet above the 



