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VOYAGE OF THE jeOTOMAC. 
[March, 
of that date signed by the Earl of Minto, Governor-general of 
Bengal. On the seventeenth of the same month a capitulation 
was entered into, by which all the dependances fell into the hands 
of Great Britain. But on the thirteenth of August, eighteen hun- 
dred and fourteen, the whole were restored to the Dutch by treaty, 
at the general pacification of Europe. The flag of the Nether- 
lands was hoisted again at Batavia, on the nineteenth of August, 
eighteen hundred and sixteen. 
The Javans, as we have already stated, are Mahommedans. 
Indeed, as early as the year fourteen hundred and twenty, during 
the reign of Pangeran Trangana, the Moslem faith so far pre- 
vailed, that a mosque had been completed, and the Hindoo idola- 
tries almost entirely exploded. But the ruins of their ancient 
temples are still to be seen, with thousands of antiquities and 
inscriptions, which, no doubt, if correctly understood, would throw 
much light on the early history of Java. 
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, who was for some time lieuten- 
ant-governor of that island and its dependances, and president of 
the Society of Arts and Sciences at Batavia, published an excel- 
lent history of that country in eighteen hundred and seventeen, 
accompanied with a complete map and a quarto volume of plates, 
illustrating the antiquities of the island, consisting of curious 
specimens of sculpture on stone, and casts in brass ; the ruins of 
temples, images, figures, inscriptions on stone and copper, tombs, 
coins, &c., with copious scientific and plausible remarks on their 
origin and purpose. We acknowledge ourselves indebted to this 
work for many valuable facts, which could be obtained from no 
other source. 
On the whole there can be no doubt that the original inhab- 
itants were of Hindoo origin, and that the religion of Mahom- 
med was induced or forced upon them by the Arabs at the time 
they carried their conquests to the eastern shores and islands of 
Asia, overspreading those delightful regions Kke the locusts of 
their own deserts. But notwithstanding they were compelled to 
embrace a new religious faith, the Javans even to this day are 
still devotedly attached to their ancient institutions, and retain a 
high respect for the laws, usages, and national observances, which 
prevailed before the introduction of Mahommedanism. And 
though the Javans, in general, acknowledge that " there is one 
