. Java and her neighbours; a traveller's notes in Java Celebes, the Moluccas and Sumatra . its period in all Eastern Tjandi Mendoet was built at a period slightlylater than the Boro Boedoer, was rediscovered in1835, and restored in 1897. From the small village of Mendoet, a few yardsfrom the shrine, it is a drive of, I should say,about a dozen miles to the city of the greater part of the way the road is a broadhighway, alongside which runs a narrower, lesscarefully kept road used by heavy carts andcountry vehicles that might block the traffic ifallowed on the main thor
. Java and her neighbours; a traveller's notes in Java Celebes, the Moluccas and Sumatra . its period in all Eastern Tjandi Mendoet was built at a period slightlylater than the Boro Boedoer, was rediscovered in1835, and restored in 1897. From the small village of Mendoet, a few yardsfrom the shrine, it is a drive of, I should say,about a dozen miles to the city of the greater part of the way the road is a broadhighway, alongside which runs a narrower, lesscarefully kept road used by heavy carts andcountry vehicles that might block the traffic ifallowed on the main thoroughfare. Lines ofshade-trees border this road, and beyond on eitherside are plantations and rice-fields. At least oncewe passed under the shade of one of the broad roadshelters that spread their picturesque, conical,red-tiled roofs, across the road every few the old days when pony-posting was the usualmode of travel these were the points wherechanges of ponies were made. To-day theyserve rather as resting places, where the tiredpeasants and coolies may ease their loads and i. THE CHIEF IMAGE OF THE MENDOET TEMPLE RUINS OF CENTRAL JAVA 215 get a momentary respite from the fierce rays ofthe sun. Several times we went by villages where fairs ormarkets were in progress, scenes of great animationand full of vivid, gay colour. It was curious to seewomen lying beside their wares in precisely theattitude of the reclining Buddha images and farmore artistic in form and costume. Besidesthese recumbent goddesses there were numbers ofothers seated under huge straw-coloured umbrellas,chewing their abominable, mouth- and teeth-stain-ing sirih with great avidity. Children, chickens,and produce of every variety are the other prin-cipal features of these wayside markets. Theroad itself is also full of life. Planters tear by inmotor-cars, or pass more sedately in quaint four-pony carryalls or on horseback, sados are plentiful,and there is a constant procession of pedestrians,for the mos
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