It is situated about a mile and half below the village, where a slight rising ground closes in the basin, and evidently once formed, the shore of the lake.

Here the river enters a gorge, very narrow and tortuous, along which it rushes furiously for a short distance and then plunges into a great chasm, forming the head of a large valley.

Just above the fall the channel is not more than ten feet wide, and here a few planks are thrown across, whence, half hid by luxuriant vegetation, the mad waters may be seen rushing beneath, and a few feet farther plunge into the abyss.

Both sight and sound are grand and impressive.

It was here that, four years before my visit, the Governor-General of the Netherland Indies committed suicide, by leaping into the torrent.