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rereil. In tfiis we did not dkcover any insci-iption 
in the^anicient chaiafter, h»t tlift groiintl wa* but 
very pEirtially aiul haHtilyexaminei], We were nU uck, 
however, with tins sculpture at' hiter duyn, ilie, me- 
morials of the dead raided in MalitHiitiiedaii llrne^, 
on a KUiaU scale, but bnauiifully executed." 
" Tbis city bad libared ibe wame fate willi ibat of 
Saruasa, Tbree time* bad it been com mil ted to ibe 
flanii'n ; twice litid it riaen to something like splen- 
dour i fioni the last shock it had not yet movered. 
Wbero llie palace of tde Sultan bad Kiood, 1 observ- 
ed a man j)!antiii^' ciicuujbersi, and ibe sutrar caue 
occujiied tiie placw of ihe aeraglio. 'Die whole coun- 
try from PrtgeruyoiJg, as far a** the eye could dis- 
tinctly trace, was one continued scene of cmliivation^ 
interspersed with innumerable toivna and villages, 
shaded by the cocoa nut and ot!ier fruit trees. I 
may safely say, tliat tbis view equidled any thing I 
ever saw in Java* Tfie scenery is more majestic and 
graml, population equally detiwe, — culiivation etpially 
rich. Here, then, for the first time, wa~s I able to 
trace tbe eonrce of that power, the ori|^in of that 
nation bo extensively scattered over the Eastern Ar- 
clnpelasfo." From this intereHtitig city and fine coun- 
try, the party commenced ibeir return, and reached 
Padang, after an ahsence of fourteen days. 
Sir Stamford again arrived at IJencoolen, com- 
menced his official occupatiotB with bis wonted 
energy, — visited Calcutta and many of the neigb- 
bouriog tBlaiidii. In most of these excuisions he was 
