THE HILL PONIES. 
71 
ascended the outer wall at its lowest point where its height 
is not above three or four hundred feet ; the wind had risen, 
and the fnie sand cut my face considerably, I noticed 
the tracks of a wild boar, it must have been a very solitary 
boar indeed to have chosen such a country to travel over. 
I was much struck with the hill ponies we had on this 
trip. They are very small, about the size of, perhaps a trille 
larger, than Shetland ponies, but very powerful and enduring. 
Some of these ponies from the neighbouring islands are 
splendid thoroughbred looking animals ; four of them belong- 
ing to my host of the Mill (Mr, Etty) were bright bays, and 
as handsome as they could be : we drove them in a light 
carriage and they went like the wind. 
We descended the other side of the mountain to a bun- 
galow situated on a delightful spot in an opening between the 
mountains on the road to Probolingoo. A pensioned Dutch 
soldier was in charge. We were capitally housed and fed, 
and I remember a dish of peaches being particularly good. 
The next morning we descended to the foot of the mountains 
where we found the above named ponies and carriage, and 
were at Monolangan Mtll by noon. 
Before leaving the eastern part of the island I made an 
excursion to the Lake of Ranio Clakka, a lovely piece of 
water supposed to have been the crater of an extinct volcano, 
surrounded on all sides by a dense forest, from which rises 
to the , height of about 4,000 feet, the almost inaccessible 
precipices and pyramidal summit of the Lamongan. This 
volcano, although always emitting smoke, seldom breaks out 
into eruption ; when however this does occur, it is always 
preceded by the summit becoming extremely pointed. When 
I made my visit this was the case, but although the mountain 
