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served in a plantain leaf. After this simple repast, they uttered their usual shout of cuju ! ayu ! and we were again on the move.

A short distance beyond this village the mandoer pointed to two hillocks in an open country to our left, known as the hills of Murgowatti, and famous for the ponies bred there ; which, he added, owe their strengtii, agility, and swiftness to drinking from a certain running spring on the slope of one of the hills, said to have been the fre([uent resort of Simbrani's horses, the bucket used Iiy them, now become hard as stone, being still to be seen."

Our roud, after leavin< these famed hills be- hind, began to be very stec]), and l.>v the time we reached J*aponan, a small village on the top of a hill, we were two hundred and iifty feet above the town of Tumungong. IK'i'e, as from an eagle's eyrie, we had a wide bird's-eye view of the sur- rounding country. Our coolies, relieved by others, here also received their money, and ran down tlu'

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