188 LIFE IN JAVA.
and, adding a tynmacasi, or " thank you," I left this inhospitable chief, and drove off in search of the logement.
To many it may seem curious, nay, even pre- sumptuous, for a traveller, though furnished with an introductory letter from a friend, to drive straight up to a stranger's house, and expect him to find lodging for him ; but in Java it is the custom to give accommodation for days together, especially where there are no public resorts of any kind for the traveller to rest in.
On arriving at the logement, I perceived it was quite a new building, which accounted for the friend who gave me the letter not knowing of its existence. AVe were glad to get under the verandah, to be sheltered from the ruin, which now began to fall fast, accompanied by vivid flashes of lightnino;.
Here we were pretty comfortable, the fai'e, though simple, being good ; and in the anticipa-
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