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the same way hack. Here everything is volcanic, and the ground 
on which we stand is tolerably warm ; almost everywhere if we bore 
with a bambu stick in the ground, the boiling mud appears. Seve¬ 
ral of these springs make an uncommon noise. They appear to 
shift, or rather they dry up in proportion as they boil out and the 
volcanic ingredients of the earth are consumed and turned into a 
kind of pipeclay; for we have walked round some places which at 
a previous time, on the first tour of inspection of Governor de 
Steurs, could not he approached. This pipeclay is very fine, and is 
commonly used for white washing houses. 
After the worthy missionary Schwartz had shewn us every thing, 
it was time for us to proceed, however willingly we would have pro¬ 
longed our stay. On the 26th August, we took leave of him, while 
the Major, Captain, their wives, with some other notable native la¬ 
dies, accompanied us on horseback to Tompasso. 
Tompasso is about 5 miles distant from Langowan, and is a pret¬ 
ty though not large village. There is a Major as head of the 
District, and we found here a very neat Loge. But as there is no¬ 
thing particular that requires mention, and we remained only a 
brief-space, we shall continue the narrative of our journey. We 
proceeded two miles on to Kowankoan where the heads of Tompasso 
took their leave of us. We next reached Bonder, the Loge of which 
is one of the first that was erected in Minahassa. The Major of this 
place H. W. Dotulong, who was engaged in the Javanese war, had 
thereby been made more free in his intercourse with Europeans. 
To the satisfaction of us all, he made known to us a water fall which 
he had discovered and which no European had hitherto visited. It 
takes its origin from the lake Lienong, and forms itself about a mile 
north of the negory Tintjep, which lies seven miles from Sonder. 
If the appearance was fearful which this mass of water exhibited 
when, from adistance, we saw it leaping down, it was yet moreimposing 
when, after a very difficult effort, we found ourselves at the basin of the 
fall. Thundering and with a deafening roar falls a stream of about 
three fathoms broad and fifteen fathoms in height, between rocky 
masses which perhaps for ages have withstood the force of this des¬ 
cending flood. The falling water reminded us by its foam of large snow 
wreathes in Europe, and partially lost itself, all broken and foamy, 
in a thick mist which, born up by the wind, returned to the element 
from which it was born. Rainbows are occasionally formed both in 
the water in the basin, and on that of the full itself. 
