TOUR FROM SOURABAYA, THROUGH KEDIRI, &C. 537 
and is at this part of its course a fine mountain stream purling oyer 
a bed strewed with trachyte boulders. Having taken the precau¬ 
tion to order up in readiness from Passuruan a roomy travelling 
carriage, we were able to perform the rest of our journey in an 
easier way, and with less exertion of our fundamental abilities, than 
the horse-back jaunt of the last two days, across the mountains, 
had subjected us into. 
Day-light of the 26th June found us whirling along our route, and 
close to the 28th paul, w r e stopped at the first post station, being 
Lingo Sari. Here are the ruins of an ancient capital of that name, 
which we spent a few hours in examining. Walking a short way 
from the post station we found a road diverging to the left towards 
the Arjuno. Right and left, as your enter, is seen a slab of stone 
standing in the ground and protruding about 3 feet, having a 
breadth of 18 inches by a thickness of 6 inches. They are both 
covered with inscriptions, but not quite so clear as those at Malang 
and Antang. Passing downwards, at the distance of a few hund¬ 
red yards, you find on the right a small temple which is the most 
perfect of all the ruins. It is built of hewn trachyte rock, such as 
is used in the other edificies and in the statues, only these are ge¬ 
nerally of a harder variety, so as to admit of finer chiselling, the 
softest description being in the middle of walls where it was not 
exposed to the influence of the atmosphere. The temple now under 
consideration stands upon a terrace walled up, all round, to the 
height of 3 feet, and forming a square, 21 paces each way. It 
occupies the centre of this, covering an irregular square of 25 to 
30 feet and rising also to an apex of about 30 feet. It is externally 
much shattered and in places tottering, but its interior chamber is 
still entire. The entrance to this is on the side facing the lofty 
Arjuno mountain which towers up hard by. Steps are here found 
in the basement terrace and conduct to a vestibule, which leads 
very nearly south east into the building; this is four paces long, 
and at the outer end may be seen the grooves in which a door 
has formerly turned. The chamber within has had no light but 
through the vestibule, occupies the centre of the building, and is 
also four spaces square ; has plain smooth walls, which overhead 
tend together, by a series of overhanging and inverted steps, till 
they terminate at the apex of a concave pyramidieal roof. In the 
middle of this wrnll still stands a corniced pedestal hewn out of a 
single block; it is three feet high with a deep hole in the top, 
which contains water. The superstitious natives still smear this 
pedestal with Boreli or yellow pigment and burn incense, as may 
be seen from the fresh remains still lying here. On the three 
other faces of the building similar and symmetrical vestibules 
have existed of which traces still exist; they however abutted 
against the wall and never having had any further interior recess, 
each served for the shrine of an image. As at almost all other 
ancient temples of Java, the lintels of the vestibules are formed 
