IN SUMATRA. 



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Ulu men do not know whither we go, but the breath that 

 goes out of the mouth is lost two arms' lenn:th away, and we 

 believe that we mix with the wind and follow it wherever it 

 goes; and our bodies certainly rot away," 



Some of the most interesting objects in the Passumah Lands 

 are the sculptured figures found in so many parts of it. The 

 greater number of these are so broken and defaced that no 

 satisfiictory result can come from their examination. They 

 have been ascribed to Hindoo origin by at least ouc writer. 



MONOLITH DISl^TERnEn BY THE AI'THOR AT TAXGEl.'SVAXGI. 



Hearing that there existed two of these "men turned to stone " 

 at Tangerwangi not far from my camp, I paid them a visit. 

 I found them to be immense blocks of stone, in excellent 

 preservation, which could certainly never have been seen by 

 the writer to whom T refer. They are carved into a likeness 

 of the human figure, in a posture between sitting and kneeling, 

 but which it is not quite easy to make out from the way in 

 which the stones are Ivinir. Besides the two of which I had 

 teard^I discovered by clearing the forest, first a third and then 



