After Tonmde had gathered some strange water bugs- ths.t 
inhabited the water, we went on to see the Petani Falls* Another 
short drive along the road brought us to the entrance to the Falls, 
and re walked through a most beautiful woods - everybody 1 s ideal of 
tropical forest, with enormous trees, quantities of ferns- little 
Ml f 
ms cutting across the path, and because of the high altitude 
no humidity, end t few flowers that one does not loci foi in the 
tropics. Here were violets end bamboo growing side by side, and 
a curious parasitic flower with tiny yellow blossoma and i pale green 
fruit looped itself from she branches' of a jungle giant. I saw a 
butterfly with brown wings edged with white, and said "Doesn't 
it look like a bit of fungus?" / few minutes later I sew fungus 
growing on another log, and said "Doesn't it llol like a butterfly?" 
Bill found horned ilies a ong the path, - the first time we 
have found them so far from water* The waterfall itseli mace a 
sheer drop of 200 left, falling from the jungle above over a 
perpendicular wall of rock. The spray blew in our faces as 
we tried to photograph it, and reinbos cancer, in the mi ft a hundred 
teet bfclo T; 
After Ivnck, we reluctantly turned Our back* on Brastegi, 
arc lefl th< gorgeous wind-swept plateau for the lover coast lands. 
Not before, however, we had picked, up a few pieces of Brastagi 
'-caving. The speciality oi the place is the white ceremonial 
scarf, woven by the Bataks, with a border design of bright colors. 
The road to Ledan winds down and down from the mountains, 
goes across a level plateau, and then down again, getting hotter 
with every minute. $!f| 
June 18 - 
We spent one of our characteristically hectic Medan 
mornings, going to the Panic, the Steamship Company, the K« P. M. , 
the Consulate, Seng Hap the grocer's, and bad to the Hotel for 
lurch. We had good news in the mail Mr. Browne was holding for us 
namely that we can have four giraffe from the Fort Sudan Loo in 
J*"- K~ \j. t' « 
Beirne and Tommie celebrated by buying a tiger skin for 
F1.80. Ingle and Marsh of Dolok Merangir were at the Hotel, an 
very helpful in arranging for us to see the proper officials of 
the Kerr Steamship Co., which we hope iuiste will take us home. 
Anyone with a cargo of live animals is persona nor, grata at 
sea, and we are having great difficulty in getting reservations, 
Finally we were, off on the long trek to itjeh. The 
roar leading north from Ledan if a beautiful one, wire, smooth, 
arc shaded at first by avenues of teak trees (Which are raised 
as saplings to build tobacco wrrehouses), and later by oil 
palms. The oil palm plantations are very handsome, with their 
luxuriant leaver-, well-kept grasi between the trees, ferns growing 
on the trunks, and the general air of an expensive garden. 
IvJL 
e stopped at TsncjEng Poer£ to edmiarc the no s cue, 
wnicn is one of the bxne sorest ones we hr v e seen, ornamented 
in color, rnd rccoruprnied by < rtrtely nrueziin tower I 
In the evening wc reached Luflr CiL/prng, rna stopped 
£t the Boulevard Hot el j which gave us good reistafel, though this 
is one of the few places we have b en *fe ^aa dZuk^ wcJutK 
