Fournereau Collection 
ANOTHER DKTAII, IN THE COMBATS OF THE RAMAYANA : ANGKOR WAT 
Both sides are armed with spear, 
shield, cuirass, and war-club. The lead- 
ers and commanders are armed with 
swords, bows, and arrows, and are pro- 
tected from the sun even in battle by 
enormous umbrellas. They ride upon 
elephants, horses, oxen, rhinoceroses, 
ostriches, deer, and, as if this were not 
enough, fabulous monsters the work of 
the artistic imagination. 
One would suppose this to be legend 
rather than history ; yet there is the 
coupe-coupe, still used by the natives for 
beheading criminals, and there is the 
identical pattern of the bullock cart in 
which I rode over in the morning, still 
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