98 APPEARANCE OF MALANGl. 



antiquities of the country, as it was based occasion- 

 ally on an old causeway of bricks of the same kind 

 as those near the ruins of Kedal. Bricks made by 

 the Javanese of the present day are much inferior 

 to these ancient ones. 



A little after noon we entered Malang, which 

 seemed a very considerable place. We passed by a 

 large market, and down a street, inhabited princi- 

 pally by Chinese, with inscriptions on the door- 

 posts and gateways, and then turning short to the 

 right, galloped on to a very spacious piece of turf, 

 forming the centre of a noble square, ornamented 

 by large and handsome houses, with pleasure- 

 grounds about them. Crossing this, we rode down 

 two more streets or roads, bordered by native 

 houses and kampongs for about half a mile, till we 

 reached the northern suburb of the town, where, on 

 a rising ground beyond a bridge, we found an 

 excellent passangerang. This was a spacious, sub- 

 stantial, brick house, with a flower-garden and 

 grass-plot in front, and a green slope behind, down 

 to a rocky brook. It was also a regular hotel, 

 where we could call for what we pleased, and pay 

 for it. 



About a musket-shot below us, on the other side 

 of the road, was an irregular white building, forming 

 barracks for thirty solders. It was well posted, as 

 it commanded the main road, and the bridge over 

 the brook, which has steep precipitous banks, 20 or 

 30 feet deep. The brook has a rocky bed, and is 



