80 TOUR FROM SOURABAYA, THROUGH KEDIRI, &C. 
any measure of the kind, considering it, very properly, 
unjust to tax the natives for making use of a work, to which 
they have contributed so much unpaid labour. May his 
successors remain of the same mind ! 
At Mojokerto we stayed all night at the sugar mill of 
Santanan. In the evening we strolled out to see the place. 
The Assistant Resident and a few other Europeans have 
their houses along the Kediri river. A little off the river 
and behind the Assistant Resident’s is the Alun Ah n, a 
neat and clean square, with the Regent’s dwelling on one 
side and the mosque opposite; a couple of recently con¬ 
structed portals ornament this enclosure, one leading to the 
mosque, the other placed over the road to Kediri. Thev 
are built of brick and plastered, look very well, but being 
only flimsily constructed, will not last long 5 the key of the 
arch of one, is already cracked. Mojokerto is a populous 
native town, but, except the dwellings of the Chinese, is 
composed of wretched thatched hovels. Opposite the house 
of the Assistant Resident, we found them busy constructing 
a new bridge over the Kediri river. It is entirely of timber, 
(teak), parallel rows of piles being driven into the bed at 
intervals ; it is about half finished. 
Day-break of the 20 th June found us rolling along the 
road towards Kediri. The first 5 or 6 pauls are over a rich 
flat plain of rice and sugar cane cultivation, the country 
then undulates a little, and as you proceed becomes covered 
with jungle and -wilderness. Just past the 42nd paul we 
turned off the main-road towards the south, and soon stopped 
on the banks of the ancient tank of Majapahit close to the 
village of Trowulan. Having been here before, in July 
1844, I shall pass over such sights as I then described, and 
proceed to notice such places as were not then visited. 
Being early in the cool of the morning, we were prepared 
to enjoy a ramble. From the north east corner of the 
tank, proceeding a few hundred yards, we were taken to 
where some statuary and the traces of a temple are found 
in the jungle. On a small mound, or what may be the 
rubbish of ruins, is seen, set on end, a rude and much decayed 
statue in stone called <c Menak Jinggo 5 ” it is the figure of 
a warder or door-keeper, with a dagger in his hand ; the 
nose and adjoining parts of the face have been knocked off, 
feathers are represented in the stone as sticking out from 
behind the body, the hair is combed back and hangs in curls. 
Near it, but on a little higher situation, is a figure called 
“ Dewi Waito,” precisely the same as the mermaid looking 
