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Uhi men do not know wliitlier wo '^n, but the breath that 

 goes ont of the month is lost two arms' leui^th away, anil we 

 believe thtit we mix witli the wiml and follow it wherever it 

 goes; and our boilies certainly rot away." 



Some o( the most interesting objects in the Passumah Lands 

 are the sculptured figures found in so many ])arts of it. The 

 greater number of these are so broken and defaced that no 

 satisfactory result can come from their examination. Tliey 

 have been ascribed to Hindoo origin bv at least one writer. 



JIOXOLITII DISINTEKriED BV THE AVTIIOI; AT TANGIil.WAXGI. 



Hearing that tliere existed two of these " men turned to stone " 

 at Tangerwangi not far from my camp, I paid tiiem a visit. 

 I found them to be immense Ijlocks of stone, in excellent 

 preservation, i\hich could certainly never have been seen by 

 the writer to whom I refer. They are carved into a likeness 

 of the human figure, in a posture between sitting and kneeling, 

 but which it is not quite easy to make out from the way in 

 which the stones are lying. Besides the two of which I had 

 heard, I discovered by clearing the forest, first a third and then 



