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inscriptions, that he had collected from the neigh- 

 bouring country. Many of these were beautifully 

 executed, and some in excellent preservation, having 

 been recently dug out of the soil. They were vari- 

 ous in kind, but seemed mostly representations of 

 different Hindoo deities. The Dutch Government 

 do not allow any of these antiquities to be removed 

 from the country. He also shewed us some copies, 

 or models, of the principal figures at Singha sari, 

 on a small scale, cut by a native artist out of a soft 

 kind of steatite or soapstone. These were very 

 fairly done, being pretty accurate copies of the 

 originals, with the relative proportions well pre- 

 served. The artist was a young Javanese resident 

 in Malang. I could not make out whether the 

 steatite existed in situ in the neighbourhood or as 

 rolled blocks in the brooks. I had observed one or 

 two pieces of old sculpture at Singha sari cut from a 

 somewhat similar stone, and on shewing them to the 

 Widono he assured me that no stone like it was to 

 be found in the country around. 



Mr. Dickelman also exhibited to us samples of 

 different kinds of coffee, some of which had been 

 husked or shelled by mills recently introduced, and 

 was worth, he said, a florin a picul more than that 

 done by hand. He gave us a box of Malang cigars, 

 too, as a sample of some he had had made for his 

 own use, and kept by him for some years. They 

 were greatly superior to those ordinarily to be pro- 

 cured, and were really very fair cigars, shewing how 



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