“FOUR FROM SOURABAYA, THROUGH KEDIRI, &C. 507 
the state of the weather or at night time, without incurring 
the labour and expense of gathering up the beans. Three 
noble stores, of immense length in a great measure encom¬ 
pass the other works ; they are composed of two floors so 
as not to pile up the coffee in too great a mass, and afford 
the means of conveniently ventilating and finally curing the 
coffee previous to the parchment husk being ground off. 
The contractor has nothing to do with the planting of the 
coffee; this is done by the native population under the su¬ 
perintendence of government officials, as is the case every 
where else. The fresh plucked berries are brought to the 
mill, and for every six measures so received, one of clean 
marketable coffee must, at least, be returned to government. 
This is a roomy calculation, but any overplus of coffee must 
also be sent to the government store. For this operation of 
curing and drying the contractor is paid, I believe about/2£ 
copper per picul clean coffee. He works out about 12° 14 
thousand piculs. The coffee cultivation on the adjacent hills 
and plains makes Batu a rather important place. Here are 
stationed a Widono or native district chief, a European 
Controleur, and a store keeper, in addition to the coffee con¬ 
tractor. There is a commodious Pasangrahan, in the garden 
of which we again found a collection of Hindu antiquities. 
These appear to relate to the worship of Siwa, two repre¬ 
senting Maha Dewa himself. One is about 4 feet in height, 
of which the forehead and upper part of the face have been 
knocked off, leaving, however, the chin, beard and musta- 
chios. A single string of simple round beads hangs from his 
neck; in the left hand is a goglet of water and in the right 
a small rosary. The other has lost his head, but holds a 
trisula in one hand. There are also two Braminy Bulls, a 
Ganesa, two Doorgas, both without heads, but with eight 
arms and full breasts, besides a small Hindu figure squatting 
down, with an expanded flower in either hand. Two small 
gorgons heads complete the list of antiquities here, but else¬ 
where we observed that a Lingga which is also connected with 
Siwa’s worship, had been put to the profane use of squirting 
water into a small tank, into the wall of which it was built, 
with an hydraulic pipe adapted. 
( To be Continued.) 
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