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The latter are thus described in a report on a visit to this island in 

 1876 by Paymaster William J. Thomson, 1 U. S. Navy: 



In order to form an estimate of the magnitude of the work performed by the 

 image-makers, every one on the island was carefully counted, and the list shows 



«*V 





Fig. 24. — Brambanan temple fagade, Java. 



Fig. 25. — Boro-Bodo temple fagade, Java. 



a total of 555 images Of this number 40 are standing inside of the crater 



.... The largest image is in one of the workshops in an unfinished state and 

 measures 70 feet in length ; the smallest was found in one of the caves and is a 



1 Te Pito Te Henua, or Easter Island, by Paymaster William J. Thomson, 

 U. S. N., Report U. S. National Museum for 1889, p. 497. 



