5^ Account o/’ Proi essor Reinwai’dt’s Journey 
in the map of the late Mr Beitjes. The swamp is, however, on 
that side shut in by a rising ground. 
After having returned from the plains, our traveirers proceed- 
ed on their way through the woody hills, north-eastward over the 
mountains of Goha, Tangar, &c. and through the district of 
nabaya-, in order to reach from that side the other mountains of 
Gadja Masslgrit, and the Gainaing Gointor. This trip was one 
of great difficulty to the party, not only from their being obli- 
ged first to make their way through an extensive desert, through 
thick forests, and over a continually ascending or descending 
ground, but also on account of the amazing quantity of loose 
ashes, thrown out to a great distance by the Goinaig Gointoir, 
which covered the ground to a considerable depth. Amongst 
the many remarkable objects which there presented themselves 
to the view of our travellers, a place on the mountain of Kismis, 
situated on the border of the districts Manabaya and Timan- 
ganten, deserves particular mention here. This place bears the 
name of Kama Karaha. Clouds of a whitish vapour rising 
from out of a cleft in the above named mountain, sufficiently in- 
dicate, even from a great distance, that a subterraneous fire is 
active there. The place itself produces such a spectacle as can- 
not be beheld without astonishment. A black, muddy, boiling 
w'ater, mixed with lava, is thrown out in high and foaming waves 
with a great noise, from different wide and deep gulfs ; spouting 
from an innumerable multitude of openings, dispersed all over 
the surface, the excessive heat of which makes the ground in 
many places quite impassable. Brimstone, a whitish salt decom- 
posed, and various high coloured sands and stones, cover and 
variegate the ground. Bocks fallen down, and black burnt 
trunks of uprooted trees, mixed with each other, lie dispersed 
on the soil, while the atm.osphere is filled with thick sulphureous 
and misty vapours. The road from that remarkable place as- 
cending further gradually up towards the Mountain of Gadja, 
became continually more and more difficult to the travellers, oo- 
casioned by the increasing quantity of ashes, which every where 
covers the ground. The wood, through which these waters 
ran, scarcely presented a single tree that appeared to be still alive, 
merely the dead black burnt trunks remained standing ; never- 
theless, on coming nearer to this awful scene of vegetable de- 
