96 MOUNDS OF ANCIENT BRICKS. 



which it again swelled out with narrow overhanging 

 ledges, and then rapidly receded by small steps to a 

 point. Monstrous faces with boar's tusks were carved 

 on the centre of each side of this upper part, and a 

 horrid satyr-like figure was placed at each corner of 

 the base of the building. There were likewise 

 carved scrolls and other ornaments and sculpture, 

 of which we had not time to take the description. 

 At the edge of the dense forest which entirely sur- 

 rounded this building, at a distance of about 100 

 yards, I observed some bricks, and on penetrating at 

 one or two points found everywhere mounds and 

 hollows ; the mounds seeming to consist altogether of 

 old bricks covered with turf and bushes. These 

 bricks were the ruins of the houses of the ancient 

 inhabitants. 



At a convenient spot between the temple and the 

 forest stood a small but good pandopo, where a 

 white table cloth waving in the breeze, spoke of 

 more refreshments, and after looking over the ruins 

 we found a luxurious hot breakfast awaiting us, 

 cooked in the neighbouring village, and brought in 

 covered boxes of bamboo. We could not but ad- 

 mire the taste of the natives, which had led them to 

 select such a spot for a rural meal. It would have 

 made a lovely picture from where we sat ; the silent 

 half ruined temple, the rank and luxuriant forest, 

 and the open glade with groups of horses and natives 

 reposing in the shelter of a few scattered* trees, and 

 the four spearmen seated on a mat with their tall 



