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THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 



WONDERFULL RUINS. 



NEAR the east cost of Java there are found vast ruins of an 

 ancient civilization, such as elegantly sculptured figures, forts, 

 palaces, baths, aqueducts, and temples, the latter having been at 

 one time decorated with the most extravagantly rich and delicate 

 sculpture work. On the mountain of GunongPrau are the ruip< 





NATIVE MEN OF THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO. 



of a magnificent temple covering a large elevated plateau. To 

 reach this temple four flights of steps were cut in the solid stone 

 of the mountain side, each flight consisting of more than one 

 thousand steps. These gigantic works will doubtless forever 

 remain a mystery ; they show the deteriorating effects of time, 

 and rude houses of bamboo and thatch occupy the site of the 



