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Notices. 



[No. 33, 



The expedition having ended in establishing the Dutch suprema- 

 cy over the island, M. Friederioh has been enabled to prosecute his' 

 researches with great success. He has not confined his inquiries to 

 Billing but has extended them to other parts of the island and has 

 sedulously occupied himself in the study of its ancient literature at 

 Badong. The fruits of his labors he has promised to contribute in 

 the shape of a comprehensive memoir on Bali in the forthcoming 

 No. of the Tidjschrift von Neerlands India (the 22d), from which we 

 trust it will early be transferred to the pages of our enterprising 

 cotemporary. — Abstracted from the Journal of the Indian ArchijDe- 

 kt^o, Vol. II. No. 3. 



Extract from Mr. H. Low^s work on Sarawak. 



*' Besides the trace of the Hindu religion,'' (in Borneo,) " which 

 we have recorded, in the disposal of their dead by fire, other relics 

 are to be discovered in their customs, particularly in that which in- 

 duces them to abstain from the use of animal food of several kinds. 



" P'rom the prevalence of the indications in the influence of the 

 Hindu rehgion, observed of their customs above detailed, M-e might 

 suppose that the traces of its monuments in the arts of building and 

 sculpture, so common in some parts of Java, might be also found here ; 

 but, as has been previously observed, it is probable that this and the 

 neighbouring river of Samarkand, were the most eastern confines of 

 its sway, and that the people were neither sufficiently numerous, nor 

 7.ealous enough in the exercise of its precepts, to render it advisable 

 to incur the necessary expense of bringing these things from Java, 

 or of importing Hindu artists from thence. One positive monument 

 of these people has, however, been found in Sarav/ak, though in a 

 much mutilated state. It is the image of a bull, carved in stone, and 

 in a crouching position, similar to one sketched in Sir Stamford Raf- 

 fies% History of Java, Fig. 5, in the plate from subjects in stone, found 

 near Singa-Sari, in the district of Maling, in Java. 



" The Borneo specimen is too much disfigured to ascertain whether 

 its trappings had been the same. This relic was much venerated by 

 the Dyaks, who protested against its being removed, declaring that 

 the country would be deluged by rain, and that other supernatural 

 events would occur, if it were allowed to go out of the province. They 

 were finally prevailed upon to permit its removal to Sarawak, by the 



