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TOUR IN JAVA. 
FROM SOURABAYA, THROUGH KEDIRI, BL1TAR, ANTANG, 
MALANG AND PASSURUAN, BACK TO SOURABAYA.* 
By Jonathan Rigg, Esq., Member of the Batavian Society 
of Arts and Sciences. 
From the mist of these surmises we will return to the thread 
of our journey. Soon after day-break, on Thursday the 24th 
June, we were again seated in our travelling carriage, and 
proceeding through alternate plantations of Coffee and Paddy 
soon found ourselves at Garom, at a distance of 125 pauls 
from Sourabaya. From this spot we had to send back our 
carriage to Sourabaya, as the road after this is not fitted for 
wheels, though if sufficient motive existed, it might easily be 
made so. The carriage was dragged back by buffaloes and 
arrived safe at its destination after a week, though only at¬ 
tended by the driver of the cattle. Mounting now on horseback 
we advanced first through a long and rich Coffee garden, and 
then emerged into a wilderness of glaga and bushes, keeping 
gently rising all the way along one of the sloping plains at 
the foot of the Klut. The land is not always equally fertile, 
as in places the volcanic rollers and debris are scarcely covered 
by a scanty vegetation, marking as it were the course of some 
eruption. Glimpses are now caught of the limestone ridges 
which skirt along the southern shore, and which prevent the 
Brontas from finding egress in that direction, compelling it 
thus to perform a long and circuitous route till it discharges 
itself into the Straits of Madura at Sourabaya. The Gunong 
Kawi is seen still far a head in the haze. Some small streams 
are passed, the largest of which however is rapid and splashes 
merrily over its bed of trachyte boulders, a sight which we 
now for the first time enjoyed since leaving Sourabaya. This 
is the Kali Lesso issuing from between the Kawi and Klut, 
and up the course of which we travelled later in the day. Soon 
after crossing this stream the road turns to the left towards 
the Kawi and we soon arrived at Weiingi after a ride of 9| 
pauls, having thus come 14 from Blitar. We may here for 
a moment look back upon the country we have been traver¬ 
sing. It has always been in the valley and along the course of 
the Kederi river, from which we are now also only a few pauls 
distant, where it is however known by the name of Kali Nga- 
jang after having dropped that of Brontas by which it is 
designated in the higher region of Malang. Weiingi is 134£ 
pauls distant from Sourabaya, the ascent is very gradual all 
* Continued from p. 252. 
