There having explored tracts resembling deserts, and cold cliffs towering high, and the West, covered with mountain ranges, and extremely difficult of access,-and proceeding at a little more to the west, it behoves you a view of the sea. And proceeding on, you monkeys, you shall see (the ocean), whose waters abound in whales and alligators, you monkeys.* Then the apes shall sport in tracts covered by Ketakas, and dense with Tamālas and woods of coconuts. There shall you look for $ītā and the mansion of Rāvana, *The grammar of these slokas is exceedingly vicious; and it has cost the Translator no small amount of labour to assign the necessary logical nexus in a good many praces:
तत्र स्थलीमरुप्राया अत्युच्चशिशिराः शिलाः॥ गिरिजालावृतां दुर्गा मार्गित्वा पश्चिमां दिशम्। ततः पश्चिममागम्य समुद्रं द्रष्टुमहर्थ॥ तिमिनक्राकुलजलं गत्वा द्रक्ष्यथ वानराः। ततः केतकखण्डेषु तमालगहनेषु च॥ कपयो विहरिष्यन्ति नारिकेलवनेषु च। तत्र सीतां च मार्गध्वं निलयं रावणस्य च॥