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VISIT TO THE TANKOEBAN FflAHOE IN JAVA, 
winter. Yet not so, the simile of a European winter by no means 
conveys the desolation which the neighbourhood of the Kawa Ratoe, 
with its for the greater part buried mountain wood, at present de¬ 
picts. So dead are not the European forests when the frost brings them 
their winters rest. That is only sleep, at most so under the pro¬ 
tecting mantle of snow ?—here it is death through suffocation, 
scorching, crushing. The rude autumnal blasts of the north may 
bend, break or root out the woody stems, but where can there be 
seen the mountain tops swept completely bare and the largest trees 
bent like reeds ? After having struggled between and over the fell¬ 
ed wood and climbed the barren edges of the crater we found our¬ 
selves on the Kawa Ratoe, 
We reached the brink of the crater on the E. N. E. side and as 
its walls here are very perpendicular, one of the most striking views 
in the volcano, at a depth of 800 in the bottom of which the liquid 
mud still heaves, may from this spot be obtained. 
The Tankoeban Prahoe is one of the active volcanoes of Java 
which has been most visited by Europeans. Horsfield paid a visit to 
the principal crater in 1804 and gave a description of it.* 
Blutne and P. P. Roorda van Eysinga ascended the mountain in 
1821, of which the last named professor has published an aecount.f 
F. G. Valek has described a trip to this mountain which he under¬ 
took in 1823in company with W. Stanffenbeil and G. Davidson,^ 
l)e Wilde§ has given a drawing of the Kawa Ratoe with a rather 
rom antic description . 
P. van Oort and S. Muller visited the Kawa Ratoe, the Kawa Op as 
and the Kawa Badak in 1832 and gave an elaborate description of 
it. || Three pictures drawn by van Oort and very recently publish- 
* On the mineralogy of Java. Transact, ©r Batav. Soeiet. vol, viir 
2d. print, p. 153-158. 
t Indie ter bevordering der Kcnms van Nederl. Ooslerche bisittingen 
Sde. boek 2d. dcel p. 40^-403. 
t Onnteekening van eene reis naar den brondenden berg Tankoeban 
Prahu, gelegen in liet district Segala Herans, Residentie Krawang.—Tijd- 
scbrift v. Neerl. Indie Jaarg. v. 1843 DI. I. 174-184. 
4 De Preanger Regentsehappen. 
ii \anlcekcningen geboudcn op cene reis over een gedeclte van bet ei- 
land Java Verb, v, h. Bat. Gen. Y. It, en W. Bel. xvi. p. 131, 
