268 ANCIENT MONUMENTS. 



probable that this and the neighbouring river of Samar- 

 hand, were the most eastern confines of its sway, 

 and that the people were neither sufficiently numerous, 

 nor zealous enough in the exercise of its precepts, 

 to render it advisable to incur the necessary expense 

 of bringing these things from Java, or of importing 

 Hindu artists from thence. One positive monument 

 of these people has, however, been found in Sarawak, 

 though in a much mutilated state. It is the image of 

 a bull, carved in stone, and in a crouching position, 

 similar to one sketched in Sir Stamford Raffles's History 

 of Java, fig. 5, in the plate from subjects in stone, found 

 near Singa-Sari, in the district of Maling, in Java. 



The Borneo specimen is too much disfigured to 

 ascertain whether its trappings had been the same. 

 This relic was much venerated by the Dyaks, who 

 protested against its being removed, declaring that the 

 country would be deluged by rain, and that other 

 supernatural events would occur, if it were allowed to 

 go out of the province. They were finally prevailed 

 upon to permit its removal to Sarawak, by the argu- 

 ment, that an object of such veneration should not 

 be permitted to be exposed in the jungle, and that 

 it should be placed under a shed in the town, where 

 it now accordingly stands. 



Two other objects, the workmanship of a people who 

 had attained to some degree of skill in the art of working 

 stone, have been discovered; the one at a point of the river, 

 about six miles above the town of Sarawak, called Battu 

 Kawa ; the other on the Samarhand river, near Lcdah 



