A TRIP TO PROBOLINGGO. 
By Jonathan Rigg, Esq. 
Member of the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences . 
f Continued from p. 563-J 
An afternoon was devoted to an excursion to Bezoekie the chief 
place of the residency. The road continues for about three pauls 
through the rich flat, which we found crowded with luxuriant cane 
fields, destined to yield next years’s crop to the mill of Pahiton. 
Soon after this we reached the Post station Watas, and here two 
pillars mark the boundary between the divisions of Bezoekie and 
Probolinggo, the latter being only an Assistant Residency under the 
former. You now enter the district of Binor, and, rising a little, the 
scenery suddenly changes, when you find yourself in a barren scrag¬ 
gy, bush country, bearing a trifling population, but tenanted by plenty 
of game, particularly Hogs, Kidang, Deer, jungle fowls and the ty¬ 
rant of them all, the tiger royal. This sort of country continues 
for six or seven pauls, and is the abutment of the chain of the Iyang 
mountains upon the ocean. The ground rises in hills immediately 
from the sea, along which the high road is laid out, winding round 
the little promontories, and into the sinuosities caused by the val- 
lies coming down to the shore. The hills are rocky and barren, af¬ 
fording for Java a rather uncommon sight; they are mostly sprink¬ 
led with dwarf teak trees, the shoots from the stumps of timber 
felled long ago. In the midst of this range is a pretty broad valley 
with a flat of sawahs, and here is situated the village and Post sta¬ 
tion of Banyu Angat (Luke warm water). This name has its ori¬ 
gin in a pretty considerable spring of water, which gurgles out of a 
hank, on the side of a small rivulet, a little way behind the Post 
house. To this the village chief conducted us ; but neither vapour 
nor smell indicated the presence of volcanic heat; our guide, indeed, 
acknowledged that the warmth was only perceptible in the night 
time. The heat may very likely have diminished in later times, as 
the fire under the Iyang has long slumbered, having found vent 
by the Ringgit and Lamongan at either extremity of the range. 
Lonely is the way which you pursue along the seashore, the road 
being often overhung by rocks and rising ground, from which a few 
