542 
A TRIP TO PROBOI.INGGO. 
under the lee of the huge chain of the lyang, I am told that the 
Ginding is as sharply defined to the westward as where we passed out 
of it on the east. This takes place about point L6ko near Tongas, and 
on this side results from the interposition of the Tengger. The 
Ginding blows strongest and steadiest during July and August, and 
is not found to exercise any unwholesome effect upon the atmosphere, 
only persons much heated must be careful not to expose themselves to 
its chill current and thus suddenly stop perspiration. At Pasuruan, 
they have a somewhat similar wind, called Goronggong, which conies 
from the south coast at Melang, passing over the gap of Lawang 
1400 feet high, between the Tengger and Arjuno. These are not 
the only points where the south east monsoon forces its way across 
the low land, between the high volcanic cones. The same wind, at 
the same season is felt very severely in the valley of Kadiri, between 
the Klut and Willis mountains, the hills on the south coast being 
here low limestone ridges. The island, however, being here so 
much broader, the wind has not sufficient force to maintain its as¬ 
cendency as far as the north coast at Taban, but expends itself about 
Ngawi and Madion, About Sourabaya, under the protection of the 
huge mass of the Arjuno, none of these periodical winds are ever 
felt. 
After lying becalmed for a couple of hours, we got a squall with 
heavy rain off the land from the lyang, and having no certain know¬ 
ledge of the appearance of the place we were bound to, it was con¬ 
sidered prudent after a while to anchor; this we did at about 4 
miles from the land, and here we remained till day light the next 
morning, whem we sailed further eastward along the coast till we 
distinguished some boats in a creek which we had learnt would mark 
our destination. I landed soon after at the village of Pasisir and 
found the creek nearly dry, being low water; loaded boats can only 
go in and out when the tide is up which, at this time of the year, 
takes place during the night. The distance from Pasisir to Pahiton 
is upwards of a paul directly inland along a cart track which runs 
beside a water course, coming from the sugar mill; you then cross 
the great post road and reach the Sugar Establishment on its south¬ 
ern side. Pahiton is a large village about one quarter of a paul 
further along the road to the eastward, and is the station of the 
Demang of the district. The 298th paul from Samarang stands near¬ 
ly opposite his house, thus making the distance from Sourabaya 
91 pauls. 
