92 RUINED SHRINES OF DJAGO. 



and all seemed only to wait for an opportunity of 

 being of use to me. I fancy Pakis is out of the re- 

 gular route of European travellers, as the attend- 

 ance at other places, while sufficiently ample, was 

 not so burdensome as here. 



Nov. 21. — We sent off our coolies direct to 

 Malang, the principal town of the district, but went 

 ourselves a few miles round to visit the ruins. We 

 first of all went east about four miles, to Djago, 

 which we reached at eight o'clock. Here, on a 

 slightly rising ground, in an open space, embosomed 

 in the forest a little to the left of the road, were the 

 ruins of two small Hindoo temples or shrines. They 

 were both built on the same plan, but one of them 

 was much more richly ornamented than the other. 

 This was a quadrangular building, the base of 

 which was seventy-nine feet long by forty-six broad. 

 It had four stories or compartments, each receding 

 several feet within the edge of the one on which it 

 rested. Each compartment was seven or eight feet 

 high, and the uppermost had a narrow arched door- 

 way leading into a small chamber in which there 

 had been a statue of some Hindoo deity. The 

 stories were reached by a narrow flight of steps on 

 each side of the front of the building, which was 

 adorned by several figures beautifully sculptured in 

 alto-relievo. The sides of the stories were adorned 

 with friezes, one of which consisted of a series of 

 figures of men and women and animals, among the 

 latter of which we could make out an elephant, a 



