TOUR FROM SOURABAYA, THROUGH KEDlftl, &C. 247 
rude buildings of Sukuh. That occasional additions, or em¬ 
bellishments were added not alone to tins, but also to other 
temples, is evident from the half finished lion-watchers at 
Boro Bud or, and it will be remembered that at Panataran, 
mention has been made above, of a roughly hewn and un¬ 
finished figure being found within the area. 
Such edifices as Panataran, Singo Sari and many other 
works of art found at this end of the island, can hardly be 
attributed to the unaided exertions of the Javanese. The 
religion to which they belong is without doubt that of the 
continent of India, and most likely the Hindus were mainly 
instrumental in bringing them into existence. In early ages 
the trade in spices was a good inducement to bring the Hin¬ 
dus to Java, and the intercourse was probably considerable. 
It must have been so when Dewa Kasuma ventured to send 
his children to India to be educated. They returned with 
numerous Hindu followers, and as their father shared out 
amongst them the sovereignty of the east end of Java, it is 
probable that they and tlieir immediate descendants emulated 
each other in embellishing their capitals and in rearing religi¬ 
ous edifices, in which they would be guided and urged on by 
their foreign friends. To this period, therefore, I should be 
inclined to ascribe the date of the best and most scientific of 
those works, which would be in the 10th and 11th centuries of 
the Christian era. At a later period the Arabs began to mono¬ 
polise the trade, and the Hindus, subdued and humbled by the 
Mahometans at home, appear to have lost much of their an¬ 
cient energy and enterprise* s 
The day was fast drawing to a close before we could tear 
ourselves away from this interesting spot.^ We retiuned 
along the road we had come, and as the evening was^ closing 
in, many large wild hogs bounced before the carriage, oi 
the graceful peacock with magnificent tail moved slowly out 
of the way of the horses : here would be plenty occupation tor 
a sportsman. Before we got back to the neighbourhood of 
Blitar, the full moon was shining brightly, so instead of turn¬ 
ing to the right to “Kapanjen” we continued our couLse down 
the incline, in the direction of the great river, to visit the 
government Saw mill at Gaprang. This mill, situated about 
2\ pauls from Blitar and nearly four from the mam river or 
Ngujang, was put up, about the year 1830, by Mr William 
Stavers who at that time had a lease of the country, it is 
in just the same state in which he left it, and though we 
enough for private enterprise, 17 years ago, when first erected 
in the neighbourhodd of plenty of teak forests, it is now, as 
