248 TOUR FROM SOURABAYA, THROUGH KEDIRT, &C. 
a government establishment, hardly worthy of mention. It 
consists of a small brick building just large enough to con¬ 
tain the Saw frames and scaffolding for ihe timber, which is 
brought up on an inclined plane ; a small water wheel is the 
moving power, and two very old Javanese, brought by Mr. 
Stavers from about Samarang, the engineers who keep it at 
work. They are father and son, the latter however, looking 
very little the junior of his gaunt sire. The population about 
Goprang are employed as Blandongs or wood-men, being 
exempted from other service. The teak timber in the neigh¬ 
bourhood having long ago been all cut down, they have now 
to drag the trees from a great distance from beyond the Bali 
.Agujang which alone is four miles distance. Beyond the river 
is the wild district of Ludoyo, where a good deal of timber still 
remains but where it becomes every year more difficult to 
obtain it, the most accessible being of course taken first The 
people are paid one guilder copper per beam as a gratifica¬ 
tion on arrival at the mill. We were informed that it was 
now impossible to supply government with timber of 60 feet 
length. The few logs which we say lying at the spot were 
only about 20 a 20 feet and quite green; the saw dust on the 
frames also was soft and wet, showing that no care is taken 
to collect and season it in the first instance. This object, 
however, could not be obtained, without a strict injunction of 
the chief government; under the present system, a depart¬ 
ment in want of timber, no sooner learns that there is store 
at Goprang, than wet or dry, they get authorization to use 
it. Plantations of young teak trees have been made about 
Goprang, which are thriving very well but it will be many 
years before they will be fit for the axe. The mill is now 
evidently badly situated, as the timber has to be brought 
from across the Agujang four paulsup the incline, there sawn 
and carried back to the same river to be transported subse¬ 
quently along it. A situation therefore somewhere nearer its 
course ought to be selected, and if the stock of timber in 
Lodoyo is sufficient, a more efficient piece of machinery 
might be put up. 
On our return, close to the village of Gaprang we were 
shown some antiquities hard by the road side, situated 
under a small open thatched shed. These consist of five or 
six objects, the principal of which are two figures now set 
on end and facing each other; they resemble in body and 
features, with goggle eyes and grinning mouth, the porters 
or watchmen so often found as guardians of the temples. 
They are, however, in this instance quite naked and present 
