. Java, Sumatra and the other islands of the Dutch East Indies . r ■w 4-^4 u W 5 o \.A < ^ /\ J ■. ^ ^ -* ji s 1 %. ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS 83 numerous, amounting to fifteen thousand souls, althoughthe revenues of the Sultan are not as large as those of theSusuhunan. The harem, the private apartments, thelittle pleasure-houses built in the interior of the kraton^the wealth of carving and incrustation in the hall ofaudience, and the pomp displayed at important cere-monies are the object of a kind of puerile emulationbetween the two sovereigns. Djokjakarta has the advantage over Surakarta of
. Java, Sumatra and the other islands of the Dutch East Indies . r ■w 4-^4 u W 5 o \.A < ^ /\ J ■. ^ ^ -* ji s 1 %. ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS 83 numerous, amounting to fifteen thousand souls, althoughthe revenues of the Sultan are not as large as those of theSusuhunan. The harem, the private apartments, thelittle pleasure-houses built in the interior of the kraton^the wealth of carving and incrustation in the hall ofaudience, and the pomp displayed at important cere-monies are the object of a kind of puerile emulationbetween the two sovereigns. Djokjakarta has the advantage over Surakarta of possess-ing, on a hill not far from the city, the venerated necro-polis in which sleep four hundred princes of the house ofMataram : a turbulent, courageous, and luxurious race ;and it is on the Sultans territory that the finest Indo-Javanese ruins are found, excepting only those of Boro-Budur. One of these monuments, the Tjandi Mendut, orMundut, long buried in the sand and ashes vomited byMerapi, is only one and a quarter miles from Boro-Budur,and is, like the latter, a Buddhist temple. It is a structure of oct
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