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THE TOLOGO LERI. 217

seen many such articles which I had been tohl were found here.

The Tologo Leri, the latter name meaning water in which rice has been washed, is between two and three miles to the east of the Passangralian. Our way to it lay under the Prau and Mondrobo moun- tains. The lake lies in a shallow basin, surrounded by hills ; and the water is of such a milky colour that the native name of Leri is most applicable. It seemed to bo in a boiling heat, the steam rising thick and buljbling, as though over a large fire.

Continuing our route, we came to a small village, at which we dismounted from our horses, and then ascended on foot to the ridge of a deep hollow, called IVkareman, situated under the Gunong Giemat, a j)art of the Prau cliain. This hollow is a liundred feet in dci)th, with a dried-up bed about thirty feet in diameter, coated witii a reddish brown mould.

The Wodono told us that at one extremity of the hollow there is a noxious escaj)e of gas at certain

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