One of these is in the middle of the village, bubbling out from a little cone of mud to which the ground rises all round like a volcano in miniature.

The water has a soapy feel and produces a strong lather when any greasy substance is washed in it.
It contains alkali and iodine, in such quantities as to destroy all vegetation for some distance around.

Close by the village is one of the finest springs I have ever seen, contained in several rocky basins communicating by narrow channels.

These have been neatly walled where required and partly levelled, and form fine natural baths.

The water is well tasted and clear as crystal, and the basins are surrounded by a grove of lofty many-stemmed banyan-trees, which keep them always cool and shady, and add greatly to the picturesque beauty of the scene.
The village consists of curious little houses very different from any I have seen elsewhere.