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Antang cannot be correctly placed in Sir S. 

 Raffles's map of Java, as Mount Klut bears from it 

 S.W. instead of N.W., as it is there made to do. 

 It seemed to me one of the most delightful spots we 

 had yet seen, and the Widono seemed much attached 

 to it, saying he had lived there twenty years, and 

 hoped never to leave it. We reached the passan- 

 gerang, which was beautifully placed on the brow 

 of a green slope, about half-past eleven, and were 

 saluted as we entered by the clang of a gamelang, 

 and the harsh voices of some dancing girls, who 

 were stationed in the court-yard to welcome us. 

 These had come to Antang, to be present at the 

 market, which was to be held to-morrow. Several 

 antiquities were scattered under the trees on the 

 green near the pandopo, having been collected in 

 the neighbourhood. One of these was a stone, 

 exactly the size and shape of the head-stones in our 

 grave-yards, but about three times as thick. This 

 was covered on both sides and along the edges with 

 an inscription in the old Javanese or Kawi character. 

 The letters, which are of an exceedingly neat and 

 elegant form, were about a quarter of an inch in 

 height, deeply and sharply cut, perfectly clear, and 

 well preserved.* The great house, or passangerang, 

 had two large double-bedded sleeping rooms, well 



* The modern Javanese alphabet is given in Crawfurd, in his 

 2nd vol., and it greatly resembled this in its general character. 

 Specimens, both of the ancient and modern alphabets, are given 

 also in Sir S. Raffles's History of Java. 



