202 TOUR FROM SOURABAYA, THROUGH KEDIRI, &U. 
from what we have lately known it. We were informed that 
about two pauls below the bridge, it receives the water of the 
Kali Bening coming out of Rowo, and then commences its 
course northward through Kediri. The Kali Bening is much 
the smaller of the two and in very dry weather is reduced 
within small limits. The river at the bridge is called Kali 
Ngujang a name which it retains till the coniines of Malang, 
when it is known as the Brontas. We found the Ngujang deep, 
clean, and rapid, with the water way sunk within a channel 
of some 40 feet broad, leaving the abuttments of the bridge, 
on either side, on the dry bank, thus plenty of room is allowed 
for the rising of the river in times of floods. The banks and 
bed of the river still consist of alluvium and soil, no rock or 
even chadas (indu ated tuff - ) has been laid bare, and though 
100 pauls from the coast we ar still in a flat country little 
elevated above the sea. We observed some rafts of timber 
guided down the stream, which passed rapidly away, to track 
boats in the opposite direction would be a difficult matter 
Instead of passing over the bridge, our route turned off at 
right angles and lay up the right bank of the Ngujang. This 
however we soon lost sight of, and though travelling in its 
direction all the way to Blitar, we saw it no more. The 
country is a wilderness till near Sringat, 12 pauls further on, 
consisting of thick tangled jungle where few forest trees 
remain standing, dense fields of glaga and here and there a 
small patch of sawah with a hovel or two, apparently settle¬ 
ments of recent date; the still green paddy bespoke the 
richness of the soil it grew on, indicating what a population 
might here find subsistance should it spread and multiply in 
this direction. The districts of Sringat and Bletar form two 
Widonoships, each answerable immediately to the authorities 
in Kediri, being managed under a system of forbearance, 
different from the rest of the residency. The meagerness of 
the population in these fine districts will be seen from the 
population returns of 1845. 
Blitar has on 600 square pauls 12,602 souls or 21 to the square paul, 
Sringat on 125 „ „ 4,575 „ or 37 fl „ 
{To be Continued ) 
