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the Island, but chiefly in the west. They far surpassed anything 

 I have seen in my limited experience. Some of the hatchet-like 

 weapons were fully ten inches long, beautifully finished and polished. 

 There were also examples of spear-heads and axes in an unfinished 

 state, roughed out with conchoidal fractures, very like the represent- 

 ations of those articles which have lately made such a stir in Europe, 

 as bearing on the anticuiity of man. The most curious was the 

 weapon represented (in Fig. 14) of which there were several examples 

 beautifully finished, even the lines marking the bevil on each side 

 being curves of perfect symmetry. The use of this weapon is a prob- 

 lem, as well as the question how a people ignorant of metal tools 

 could arrive at such perfect workmanship. 



It is worth mentioning that in every instance the back end of the 

 weapon was left rough and un wrought. 



Mr. Kinder Van Camarecq's collection contained many bronzes 

 and other objects of the greatest interest, and some specimens of 

 wretched forgeries of bronzes at which the Javanese try their hands 

 to take in strangers. I will only mention two of the articles in his 

 collection besides the celts. One was a small bell decorated in the 

 usual Buddhist style, but the handle of which by some strange 

 chance was formed into a genuine Iona cross.* The other was a very 

 curious implement of some white metal, the use of which is unknown. 

 It is shown in Fig. 16. It is 5 or 6 inches long, perforated 

 throughout, and the bottom furrowed from end to end by parallel 

 grooves. The natives have no idea of its use, but it is said to have 

 some distant resemblance to a tool used in Java to polish the paper 

 of the country. 



* I regret that I have lost my sketch of this curious bell. That given in 

 Fig. 15 is from recollection. 



