72 EXCURSION TO THE LAKE OF RAN 10 CLAKKA. 
was very uneasy and every now and again sent forth volumes 
of smoke, with violent explosions as if hundreds of cannon 
were being fired simultaneously, causing us to rush out of 
the bungalow in the greatest hurry, our hopes were always 
disappointed, 
I waited as long as I possibly could, and of course, some 
short time after I left, on one calm, night the critical period 
arrived, and about three hundred feet of the summit was 
blown off, tind numerous streams of molten laya coursed down 
the precipitous sides of the mountain. It was one of the 
finest eruptions that had been seen, and those who witnessed 
it, described the scene, reflected in the mirror-like surface 
of the lake, as splendid in the extreme. Fortunately the 
eruptions of this mountain do little or no harm, as the flow of 
the lava does not extend much beyond the cone. 
Towards the end of July I bade adieu to my kind and 
hospitable friends, and started overland for Batavia, The 
first part of the journey I was accompanied by a very 
agreeable Englishman who had setUed in Java, but the latter 
part 1 had to make alone in my carriage. 1 used to travel 
with my ride by my side*; and managed to bag a good many 
wild hog as well as peafowl and jungle fowl, which were as 
common as possible all along the route, and afforded excellent 
sport 
A few days before I arrived at Kediri there had been 
an eruption of the Kluti (Kloet), a volcano 5,193 feet 
above the sea, and when I came to the bank of the river I 
was nearly pitched into it in consequence of the coachman 
attempting to drive over a temporary structure made of 
bamboo framework, to replace a part of the bridge which had 
been carried away by the flood. The effects of the late 
