Show JAVAS JAVAIS NATURAL WONDER home of the hot devils devil great gr t interest to travelers the greatest natural wonder in java if not in the entire world is the justly celebrated cheko o kamaka grumko or Ill horne nic of the hot devils known to the world as the aslan Is landof fire this geological singularity is really a lake of boiling mud situated at about the center of the plains of Gro bogana bogan a and it is called an island because the great emerald sea of vegetation which surrounds it gives it that appearance the island is about two miles in circumference and is situated at a distance of almost exactly 50 miles from solo near the center of this geological ireal freak immense columns of soft hot mud may maybe be seen continually rising and falling like great timbers thrust through the boiling substratum by giant bands and then ag again ciri quickly y withdrawn 11 besides the phenomenon of al the boiling mud columns there are scores of gigantic bubbles of hot slime that fill up like huge balloons and keep up a series of constant explosions varying with the size of the bubble in times past so I 1 the Ja javanese Tunese authorities say there was a tall spir elike column of bal baked ed mud on the west edge of the lal lake e which constantly belched a pure stream of cold water but this has long been obliterated and everything is now a seething mass of bubbling mud and slime a marvel to the visitors who como come from great gnat distances to se it |