. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. ke a full survey of the buriedruins, and after some difficulty I succeeded in securing, for aconsideration, the services of a youth who was willing to 98 A NATURALISTS WANDERINGS brave with me the wrath of the guardian spirits of the grove,and assist me in the sacrilegious work of hewing which myoperations would entail. In the immediate neighbourhood, was discovered a bronzebell of undoubted Hindoo manufacture, its handle ornamentedwith the sacred bull, but without the clapper which
. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. ke a full survey of the buriedruins, and after some difficulty I succeeded in securing, for aconsideration, the services of a youth who was willing to 98 A NATURALISTS WANDERINGS brave with me the wrath of the guardian spirits of the grove,and assist me in the sacrilegious work of hewing which myoperations would entail. In the immediate neighbourhood, was discovered a bronzebell of undoubted Hindoo manufacture, its handle ornamentedwith the sacred bull, but without the clapper which haddropped from its ring; and within the boundaries of thegrove stands a rude figure of the Buddha, with elevated finger,as if in the act of instructing. The ruins consist of terraces built up round the hill, whichprobably once encircled it entirely, but part of which hasevidently extended where now the coffee plantation exists,and has been obliterated perhaps in the cultivation of forestpatches by the natives in former periods. Only the portionsurrounding for some distance that used by the worshippers has. EGG-SHAPED STONE FROM THE EARANGS GKOVE. been left unmolested. There the terraces are completely laidout in quadrilateral enclosures, their boundaries marked out byblocks of stone laid or fixed in the ground, which with singularexactitude lie within a degree of the true magnetic cardinalpoints. Here and there on the terraces are more prominentmonuments—erect pillars surmounting oval piles of stones;flat slabs on the ground supporting egg-shaped blocks, whichare distributed in many spots in such numbers and perfectionof shape that to have made them or searched the brooks forthem must have entailed a vast expenditure of time andtrouble. Here and there also I found flat slabs raised on endand remains of circular paved areas, set round with uprightblocks of stone. Specially noteworthy was a pillar, erectwithin a square marked out with stones on the ground, round IN JAVA, 99 w
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