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work I have never seen before or since. There was no 

 scidphire here, but abundance of bold projections and 

 finely-worked mouldings. Traces of buildings exist for 

 many miles in every direction, and almost every road and 

 path%vay shows a foundation of brickwork beneath it — the 

 pav«^d mails of the old city. In the house of the Waidono 

 or district chief at Modjn-agong, I saw a beautiful figure 

 carved in high relief out of a block of lava, find which had 

 been found buried in the ground near tlie village. On my 

 expressing a wish to obtain some such specimen, Mr, B, 

 nsked the chief for it, and much to my surprise he imme- 

 fHately gave it me. It represented the Hindoo goddess 

 Durga, called in Java, Lora Jonggrang (the exalted virgin). 

 Slie litis eight arms, and stands on the hack of a kneeling 

 bull. Her lower right hand holds the tail of the bull, 

 wliile the correspontiing left hand grasps the hair of a 

 captive, Dewth ^lahikusor, the personification of vice, w li" 

 has attempted to slay her bull He has a cord round hia 

 waist, and crouL'lies at her feet iti an attitude of supplica 

 tion. The other Iiands of the goddess hold, on her right 

 side, a double hook or small anclior,a broad sti-aiglit sword, 

 and a noose of thick cord ; on her left, a girdle or annlel 

 of large beads or shells, an unstnmg bow, and a stand an I 

 or war flag. Tliis deity was a special ^favourite among 

 the old Javanese, and her image is often found in tlio 

 ruined temples which abound bi the eastern part of tha 

 island. 



The specimen I had obtained was a small one, about 

 two feet high, weighing perhaps a hundredweiglit \ and tht* 

 next day we had it conveyed to Jlodjo-kejrto to await my 

 return to Sourabaya, Having decided t© stay some tim« 

 at Wonosalem, on the lower slopes of the Arjuua Moun- 

 tain, Mdiere I was informed 1 should find forest and 

 plenty cf ganie» I had first to obtiiin a recoramendation 

 from the Assistant Resident to the liegent, and then an 

 order from the Regent to Waidono ; and when after 

 a week's delay I arrived with my baggage and men at 

 Modjo-agong, I found them all in the midst of a five days* 

 feast, to eulebrate the circumcision of the Waidono's 

 younger brother and cousin, and had a small room in an 

 outhouse given me to stay in. The courtyard and the 



