536 TOUR FROM SOURABAYA, THROUGH KEDIRI, &C. 
at the flagstaff. The image is about four feet high from the seat to 
the top of the head, and is tints larger than an ordinary sized man ; 
he is bald headed and enveloped in the simple Siwura which shows 
across the breast and at the ancles ; in these particulars he resembles 
the figure of Joko Dolog, before the Residency of Sourabaya, and 
in fact is, in other respects, the same, a little less in size. The 
figure is in every respect perfect except that the tip of the nose has 
been knocked off, and this an attempt has been made to replace by 
a vile cock up one in wood. This is the only representation of 
Buddha which I have met with in Malang. Near to this is a full 
life figure of what appears to be a Maha Dewa, also squatting 
cross-legged and executed in a superior style of excellence. Unfor¬ 
tunately the face has been knocked off, as is the case with so many 
other images on Java ; the zeal of the new converts to Mahomedan- 
ism appearing to have vented itself in this peculiar method of mu¬ 
tilation. Behind the figure, the stone is shaped into a flat slab against 
which it leans and by which it is overtopped. Opposite the back 
part of the head, this slab is perforated, and through an opening of 
about 10 inches, may be seen a placid face of Maha Dewa looking 
out from behind, no doubt symbolic of his all-seeing power. This 
face with its beard is perfect, being protected by the slab. Here 
is also found a slab with a long inscription, in characters the same 
as the one at Antang and also very distinct. In another part of 
the garden we observed a collection of many figures of smaller 
size being 2 a 2| feet high; the most remarkable of these were 
goddesses with full breasts, the nipples of which are pierced and 
appear to have admitted the passage of water. 
The abundance of the remains of Hindu antiquities, in this part 
of Java, must now be sufficiently manifest from the circumstance 
alone of our never reaching a place of any note, without finding a 
collection of them in the gardens or near the dwellings of the 
European authorities. Many more doubtless exist in the jungle 
and villages, and many others have been carried away during the 
last 50 years. We observed a mutilated Ganesa upturned and 
left neglected by the road side, near a village on the way from 
Batu. A matter worthy of remark is the great variety which is 
every where met with, all bearing Hindu characteristics, sufficiently 
proving that the strangers of India had always the guidance of the 
work. There is no appearance of the Javanese having merely 
servilely copied a few models which had been left them; every 
where the execution is spirited even when rough, showing that 
masters’ hands have been there. 
We found accommodation for the night in the Government 
Pasangrahan, which is a roomy brick-building outside the town, 
and close to a double-storied erection with a breastwork of earth at 
one corner, on which is mounted a gun, and which, out of compli¬ 
ment, is called “ The Port.” The river Brontas, which is here cros¬ 
sed by a wooden bridge, runs between them and the Kota Malang, 
