VISIT TO THE TANKOEHAN PRAHOE IN JAVA, 
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ed * are now before me and represent 1st. a view of the Tankoe- 
ban Prahoe and the southernmost portion of the Boerangrang, 2d. 
the Kawa Ratoe from the N. E., and 3rd. the Kawa Opas taken 
from the N. E. side. Junghuhn gave a-topographical relation* as 
it is said, from a visit to the mountain in 1837 in company with 
Fritze and Nagel, t It would be superfluous to give another 
description of the different craters, as to their form, situation 
and extent. I found them after the recent eruption generally as 
Junghuhn has described the Kawa Ratoe and the Kawoe Opas and 
Van Oort and S. Muller the Kawa Badak. But have all the con¬ 
spicuous eminences and their relative positions remained the same, 
and the Kawa Opas and Badak itself undergone no change ?—the 
Kawa Ratoe still bears the evident marks of the eruption which a 
few days since filled the inhabitants at its feet to the eastward with 
fear and terror. Nothing more is perceptible of those land slips 
which formerly along the side of the crater afforded the traveller so 
many resting places in his descent,—nothing of those through sul¬ 
phurous vapours changed into whitish masses or porous ridges as 
stated by Junghuhn along the sides of the crater,—nothing of that 
white, grey or yellow' colour of the volcano,—nothing of the clear 
grey or yellow' ashes on the bottom,-—and nothing more of those Thi- 
bandia bushes which before the last eruption at intervals decorated 
the mouth of the crater:—at present a universal greyish blue colour 
prevails from the bottom to the highest ridge, the sides of the crater 
are at present entirely covered with mud and ashes which have not 
left a single stone exposed to the eye and nevertheless scorched 
and covered completely the sparing vegetation. The crater at pre¬ 
sent is a deep funnel with slippery sides declining with an inaccessi¬ 
ble declivity to the volcanic pit, which is still filled with mud bub¬ 
bling and sending up its hissing vapour as much higher above the 
craters top as that is distant from the bottom. It appears that dur- 
* Yerhandeling over de natuelykc gesehiedenris der. Nederl. Overz. 
besittingen hand & Yolkr plaat 75, 76 77. 
a- Bydiagen tot de geshiedenis der Yuleanen. 10. Tankoebang Praw, 
Tyds. voor neerl. India, Jaarg, v. 1834 pag. 185-202 en Topographi- 
sehe und naturwisscnschftllchc Reisen durch Java, 1815, pag, 188-194. 
