62 TRAVELS IN THE EAST INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. 



of the cock, two names for the comb, three for crow- 

 ing, two for a cock-pit, and one for a professional 

 cock-fighter. 



But to return to the garden, where, among more 

 interesting objects, were some images of the Brah- 

 man or Buddhist gods, worshipped by the ancient 

 Javanese. One, particularly monstrous, appeared to 

 have the body of a man and the head of a beast. A 

 favorite model was to represent a man with the head 

 of an elephant, seated on a throne that rested on a 

 row of human skulls. 



Hinduism was undoubtedly introduced into the 

 archipelago in the same way as Mohammedanism — 

 namely, by those who came from the West to trade, 

 first into Sumatra, and afterward into Java and Cele- 

 bes. This commercial intercourse probably began in 

 the very remotest ages ; for, according to Sir Gardner 

 Wilkinson, the Egyptians used tin in manufacturing 

 their implements of bronze two thousand years be- 

 fore the Christian era, and it is more probable that 

 this tin came from the Malay peninsula than from 

 Cornwall, the only two sources of any importance 

 that are yet known for this valuable metal, if we in- 

 clude with the former the islands of Billiton and 

 Banca. In the " Periplus of the Erythraean Sea," 

 written about a. d. 60, it is stated that this mineral 

 was found at two cities on the western coast of India, 

 but that it came from countries farther east. In this 

 same descriptive treatise it is also mentioned that the 

 malahrathrum, a kind of odoriferous gum imported 

 from India for the use of the luxurious Romans, was 

 found at Barake, a port on the coast of Malabar, 



