“What is the name of those mountains?”
“Batang Loepar,” Johannes answered. [[359]]
“How high do you consider them to be?”
“The English reckon the highest peaks to be between six and seven thousand feet.”
“When we are once up there shall we have a long way before us?” asked La Cueille.
“In order to reach Jupille? Yes, a very long way.”
“No; stupid,” rejoined the Walloon, “I mean before we reach the sea-shore?”
“That, I don’t know; I have never been here before.”
This question, when put to Harimaoung Boekit, still remained unanswered.
The Poenan chief only shook his head and smiled. He was unskilled in the calculation of distances.