. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. , whenceafter a trial they ave again transported to the baking field,where a time is allowed to them to perfect themselves, when,if they have made proper use of their opportunities they areat last called under the great shade; but if, after all thesetrials, they have failed to learn, they are beaten to dust inthe mortar and blown away. We Ulu men do not know ifthis is so or not, and we wonder how they know, for we havenever heard of any one who has come back to tell them. We IN SUMA
. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. , whenceafter a trial they ave again transported to the baking field,where a time is allowed to them to perfect themselves, when,if they have made proper use of their opportunities they areat last called under the great shade; but if, after all thesetrials, they have failed to learn, they are beaten to dust inthe mortar and blown away. We Ulu men do not know ifthis is so or not, and we wonder how they know, for we havenever heard of any one who has come back to tell them. We IN SUMATRA. 201 Ulu men do not know whither we go, but the breath thatgoes out of the mouth is lost two arms length away, and webelieve that we mix with the wind and follow it wherever itgoes; and our bodies certainly rot away. Some of the most interesting objects in the Passumah Landsare the sculptured figures found in so many parts of it. Thegreater number of these are so broken and defaced that nosatisfactory result can come from their examination. Theyhave been ascribed to Hindoo origin by at least one MONOLITH DISI>TEUKEn BY THE AtTHOU AT TANGEKWANGI. Hearing that there existed two of these men turned to stone at Tangerwangi not far from my camp, I paid them a found them to be immense blocks of stone, in excellentpreservation, which could certainly never have been seen bythe writer to whom I refer. They are carved into a likenessof the human figure, in a posture between sitting and kneeling,but which it is not quite easy to make out from the way inwhich the stones are lying. Besides the two of which I hadheard, I discovered by clearing the forest, first a third and then 202 A NATURALISTS WANDERINGS a fourth, both prostrate on the ground in such a way as to in-dicate that they probably fell from the result of earthquakes;or by stones ejected from the volcano at whose base they hadstood. Each figure has a groove down the back and theyhad apparently stood on a fl
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