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Nothing remained for me but to pay my mendacious Malay half the number of florins he demanded and follow my new guide. As a matter of fact, Tji Wangi was ten miles away on the other side of the Goenoeng Malang, or Cross Mountain. This, of course, I did not know, and so I set off cheerfully up the side of the mountain.
In the eastern part of Java, at Kediri and in Malang, there are equally abundant traces of antiquity, but the buildings themselves have been mostly destroyed. Sculptured figures, however, abound; and the ruins of forts, palaces, baths, aqueducts, and temples, can be everywhere traced.
It is the highest volcano in Java and has a perfect cone. The crater, from which smoke and ashes are constantly ejected, is not on the summit but is formed on the south-east side. The visitor who does not wish to retrace his steps to Poespo and Pasrepan may return to the plains by way of Malang or Lawang through beautiful sub-tropical and tropical mountain scenery. Sunrise at the Penandjaan Pass.
Then came a croaking laugh out of the darkness and words intended for his ear. "By Malang Shah! but my lord doth fight like a Rajput!" Amber caught his breath and exploded. "Half a chance, you damned thugs, and I'd show you how an American can fight!" But he had spoken in English, and his hearers gathered the import of his words only from his tone, apparently.
At Gunong Praü, forty miles south-west of Samarang, and further east, at Kediri and in Malang, there are large tracts of ruins; but the most imposing and interesting for the traveller are to be found in the centre of the island, in the neighbourhood of Magalang and Djokja, in positions indicated by the accompanying map.
He wedded the Finn girl, and moved over to Malang, where he got him a clearing in the forest, and he lives there now, and is doing well, they say. A district in northern Norway. A boat with three oars on each side. A long pole, with a hooked iron spike at the end of it, for spearing Kvejte or hallibut with. A large boat with five oars on each side, used for winter fishing in northern Norway.
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