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collected them safely without being stung in the process. 
June 1C - 
Left Fort de Kock early in the morning, after stopping to 
£ d ire the nearby Panorama (the Dutch always label any f^g^ 
the tourist should stop and see "Panorama 0.45 kms I. 
astonishing to look out over the vast canyon belo • the city, and 
to realize "tilt this town is built on the edge of so sheer a cliff. 
VJe collected -long the route, stopped in Loeboek Sikaping 
for lunch, and paused once more at the po son spring. A i 1 ^? 
extra^eepaS came out near the road, but we found no dead butter- 
flies today. 
Through the gorgeous country of Devil's Mountain we came 
a*ain this S5S lust before sunset, -hen the folded green of the 
Sa'ss-covered hills looked rich and soft as velvet and the little 
gS!« Of tree" in the hollows showed black against the mountains. 
Though iittie villages that were fragrant with wood smoke and 
frying! coconut, where the children shouted greetings as our car^ 
went by, and through the peaceful rice f lelds , where tnel.ttxe 
pools of water with their teM mud dykes looked li^e st.ined 
class windows in the sunset color's reflections. Later the new 
Sheered up at us from the sawahs. .Past slow-moving cumbersome 
buffalo carts we drove in the dark, coming into the kota ^opan rest- 
house, ablaze with electric light, furnished with a noisy radio 
and a welcome frigidaire, and Williams waiting for us. 
June 11 - 
Off at eight o'clock, and interested in the native, life 
all the wry to Padang Sidempoean, where we had lunch, called again 
on the Controller and saw Mr. Furbeck, who took us to his house to 
see his tame white gibbon - a nice be? st. 
Yroi Pad. Sidempoean we turned off on the new road, that 
goes bv way of Sipirok, and found ourselves climbing up into a 
lorgeouc rkgh plateau - grass lands, low shrubs, and then everyonce 
In I while I deep jungle canyon lined with trees, where we could see 
StSxS^IAS? Pe-fng at us with their incuisitive SJ^ested 
head* lust showing over the bushes. The resthouse at sipirok is 
Sigh arid cool, with a lovely view of the surrounding mountains, ana 
we ate nasi goreng and slept under two blankets. 
June 1? - 
We were not far from home when we started th s morning, 
but this is the country of hot springs, and we stopped many times 
for Tommie to look for the inhabitants of the war water - beetles, 
blood wSrls! and algae. It was the middle of th. afternoon when we 
liSchedS Tarottoeng, and the drive, although not as nerve-wra ckmg 
asthe Sibol^a road, was tiresome, for the road was narrow and 
dusty! towards sunset we approached Praprt, and as we looked once 
more upon the deep coloring of Toba ' s water, and the surrounding 
