82 TOUR FROM SOURABAYA* THROUGH KEDIRI* &C. 
creeps through a jungle of wilderness* though in the proud 
days of Majapahit it may have meandered through groves 
of fruit trees. Ascending a short way on its southern bank* 
we reached a ridge running towards the east* and following 
this* along a broad pathway cut through the jungle and 
forest* amongst the trees of which the Lutung monkeys 
were disporting, after a walk of about 20 minutes from the 
tank* we reached the object of our search—the “ Gopuro 
Bajang RaUi” or gateway of disappointment of the Prince* 
or more literally “gateway of the stunted princedom/’ Ba¬ 
jang meaning stunted. Gopura means (Clough page 183* 2 
vol.) a door, a town gate, a gate in general, and is applied 
to several similar edifices found among the ruins of this 
former capital of Java, Another I visited in 1844 near 
the main-road* and a third is somewhere in the jungle south 
of the tank, but which we did not see. The two latter are 
figured in Raffles’ work* but not the one w r s are now visiting. 
It stands in the midst of the forest, but the underwood has 
been cleared away from immediately around it j the bouo*h 
of a large tree rests against the upper part of the edifice. 
It is a doorway built of the usual large red bricks without 
cement, and rising up pyramidally to a height of about 60 
feet* where it terminates in a pinnacle that is still very 
perfect. The upper part of the building is in a sounder 
state of preservation than the lower* where at the north 
east angle a quantity of the bricks have mouldered and 
fallen away* so that it has been found necessary to support 
the mass by a frame work of timber* fitted closely into the 
aperture of the doorway* without which the whole would 
be in imminent danger of tumbling down. The aperture 
of this doorway is not more than 4 or 5 feet broad* but* to 
our ideas, out of proportion lofty. The threshold is ele¬ 
vated some 4 or 5 feet from the ground* and is on either 
side approached by a flight of steps of trachyte stone ; so 
also the lintel overhead is not an arch* but a series of 
inverted steps* also of stone* and the counterpart of the steps 
below. The aperture has originally been fitted with a double 
or folding door, as on either side may still be seen the grooves 
cut into the threshold* in which the pivots of the door have 
revolved* a plan that appears to have been adopted in all 
the old buildings in Java. Much care has been employed 
in the construction of the edifice* in disposing the materials 
in tasteful cornices* with projecting and receding angles. 
The sculptured figures of human beings may still be traced 
near one side of the doorway, as well as other artistic orna- 
