Good rice produces thirty-fold, and coffee trees continue bearing abundantly for ten or fifteen years, without any manure and with scarcely any cultivation.
I was delayed a day by incessant rain, and then proceeded to Panghu, which I reached just before the daily rain began at 11 A.M.

After leaving the summit level of the lake basin, the road is carried along the slope of a fine forest ravine.

The descent is a long one, so that I estimated the village to be not more than 1,500 feet above the sea, yet I found the morning temperature often 69 deg., the same as at Tondano at least 600 or 700 feet higher.

I was pleased with the appearance of the place, which had a good deal of forest and wild country around it; and found prepared for me a little house consisting only of a verandah and a back room.

This was only intended for visitors to rest in, or to pass a night, but it suited me very well.