TWILIGHT AND E^TNINO, 



smoke, tlxat when the sun had Bunk behind the ser- 

 rated crest of the Barizan, the whole horizon for 

 twenty degrees and to a considerable height was 

 lighted up with one unvaiying golden glow. Here 

 the Barizan is composed of four or five parallel 

 ranges^ which rise sncceseively one above the other 

 until the last forms the highest elevation in that 

 chain. These different ranges were of various shades 

 of color ; that the nearest to us, or the lowest, being 

 the darkest, and those above it of a lighter and 

 lighter hue up to the highest range, which had a 

 bright border of gold along its crest ; and from that 

 line to where we stood the aii' seemed filled mth a 

 purple dust. As the daylight laded, the fires in the 

 tall grass on the hill-sides became more distinct ; 

 sometimes advancing in a broad, continuous band, 

 and sometimes breaking up into an iiTegular, beaded 

 lina Soon afterward the moou rose as charmingly 

 in the east as the sun just gloriously set in the west. 

 First a diffuse light appeared along the mountain- 

 tops and whitened the fleecy cumuli hovering over 

 their summits. Then that part of the sky gi^ew 

 brighter and brighter until the light of the fiill moon 

 fell like a silver cascade over the serrated edge of the 

 high mountains and rested on the tops of the hills 

 below. An assistant resident is stationed here at 

 Fort Elont, who has chai'ge of this fruitful valley of 

 Mandeling, which is wholly inhabited by tlie Battas. 

 The territoiy between this valley and the west coast 

 is also inhabited by this rude people. The Eesident 

 explained to us the trouble taken by the government 

 and the expense it was incm-riiig, in order to tciuih 



