SIR TH031AS STAMFORD R.«?TLEi5. 41 
pressing ipyself in raplnrps. As we descended, tlie 
scene improved ; we found ourseU'es in an immense 
amphttht'alre, sunounded hy mountains ten and 
twelve ilirmsand feet Itigli ; thv. mil on wliicli we 
stood rich bfvoiid di'scriptian, and vegetation luxu- 
riant and Lrlliiant in every direction. The people, 
too, seemed a new race, far superior to tliose on tLe 
coQMt, tall, stont, and ingeimons. They received us 
most hohpitabiy, anil ccuulueted us to the villa-jje of 
^Nigri-Cayu, where we sJept. 
" In the vicinity of Nigri-Cttj'u, were several hot 
»prinpr!?, md we soon succeeded in making very com- 
fortable warm batli«. 
" On the nest day we proceeded to Tawjong 
Alem (the point of ihe world}, another village in the 
Passumah country, which we readied in about alx. 
hours walk, throu|;li one of the fincKt countrleti m 
the worhh having before us nearly the whole way 
tlie volcanic mtiuiitain called Gunung Deitipu, from, 
which tijc emoke issued in large voluinea- 
" At Tanjung Alem, we remained two nights. 
We found the villa gesi in this part of tiie country 
most respecmble, many of tfiem having more than 
five hundred iiihal/itants ; the houses large, and on a 
different plan to those on the coast ; each villager 
which may mther be consiilered m a small town, has 
a fosse or ditth round it, witli liiyh palisade;*. We 
passed the site of two or three towns, which were 
represented to have been destroyed by the petiy hoa^ 
tilities between the chief::. 
