TOUR FROM SOURABAYA, THROUGH KEDIRI, &c. 497 
occasionally burnt for *lime, and was used for building the 
Gaprang saw-mill, as well as the fort at Redin', if I am right¬ 
ly informed This strait has most probably been in a great 
me^ure filled up with matter ejected from the Klut. The 
debris of the mountain, forming a talus round its western base, 
bad forced the Kediri river to find its way along the western 
confines of the valley near the range of Wilis, nor has it yet 
been able to burrow down to any firm rock or stratum in situ, 
but still forces its course through the loose earth and gravel of 
the surface. 
From Welingi, there is a road, passable however only on 
horseback, which leads by way of Senggoro to Malang, al¬ 
ways keeping to the valley of the Brontas, round the western 
and southern base of the Kawi. The distance is said to be 
about 40 pauls. 
Though Welingi is not often troubled with the presence 
of European visitors, it nevertheless possesses the rude means 
of accommodation. In a. corner o> the Lurah’s yard is the Pas- 
angrahan or Rest House, a rather primitive edifice of bambu. 
and thatch. It is portioned off into a few rooms, the furni¬ 
ture of each of which consists of a bambu hali bale, an allego¬ 
rical representation of a bedstead, and a stake of bambu, 
split at one end so as to form a tripod, whilst the shaft rising 
upwards is destined to bear either an earthen cup or the less 
presuming segment of a cocoanut shell, which, supplied with 
a little oil and wick, performs every duty of a candelabrum. 
We were entertained with all due ceremony, in a roomy 
shed or pondoppo adjoiningin front, the earthen floor of which, 
for the occasion had been covered over with a collection of 
rattan mats. In the midst of this ball of audience was a small 
wooden table of plain workmanship, and at either end a chair, 
to which we were conducted to partake of the hospitality of 
the place, which consisted in the first instance, of thick muddy 
coffee, uncontaminated with milk, fine ripe plantains and a 
variety of kwe-kwe of ambiguous origin, whose history, for 
the sake of delicate stomachs, is better left untouched. These 
preliminaries were, after a couple of hours, during which 
sundry solemn embassies was despatched to the Lurah’s 
wife to ascertain the progress of culinary events, followed 
by a smoking basket of excellent boiled rice and a few gril¬ 
led fowls twisted into various fantastic figures, as if the poor 
birds had still suffered, upon the hot embers, the bitter pangs 
of an untimely end. Notwithstanding this sentiment of phil- 
ornithic sympathy, the two graminivorous and carnivorous 
animals seated at the table, made sad onslaught on the viands. 
