The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-11
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ures which let us say they ish to have
blue and the sprocess Is repeated thus,
often with a dozen colors until the gar
ment 10 finished. And after all this work
they receive perhaps q dollar for the
Java is now a Mohammedan country.
Every year thousands of Its inhabitants
make the piigrin,a 60 to Mecca. butstH the
ninth century the tphabitants were con-
ents Of that faith for more than ~,
year, During this peftod of R,addhtAml
thousands of beautiful temples were
reared all over the island and the ruins
OF many Of them can be seen today or
these ruins the great Boro- Boedocr near
Magelang In mid Java Is the most won
derful, II consists of IL great, mound-
shaped building about three hundred feet
IN diameter at the base and rising over. a
hundred feet abore the crest o. the hill
on which 1t Is built. 1t rests on three
great stone terraces and Is surrounded
by five great galleries with balustrades.
Above the galleries are yet four more cir
cular terraces. on the last of which Is
great bell shaped eupola. while there are
some seventy-five similar hut smaller
cupolas on the other circular terraces. Hut
the greatest marvel of the ruin lies In
the. extensive and beautiful carvings
which line the sides of. the fine snlleries
there are over 1850 complete bas-reliefs.
the carving of which is so finely executed
as to seem almost incredible at such an
early neriod. The bas-reliefs give q sue.
cession. Of pictures describing the life Of
Budda from the time of his conception
to his final absorption in Mirvana. There
are In addition to these bas-reliefs some
~ almost Iife-si5ed statues Of Budda. In
all his habitual attitudes, as teaching.
thinking. promising, receiving and ex-
At Djojacar,a we visited the outer
courts Of the great Kraton (palacel OF the
Sultan, within which live over 5000 peo-
pie. all attached to the household OF that
We saw his magnificent stables
and his great cages full of ferocious beasts
which tear at the heavy wooden bars
when you come near, roaring lin rage at
their futile efforts to get at you. Their.
are many wild tigers in the eastern and
western ends of the islands, also plenty
of wild cats. deer and a few rhinoceroses.
The most dreaded of all the wild beasts
OF Java. however. are the wild buffaloes.
They are extremely aggressive. and the
minute they scent a man will make for
him, and nothing except a forest giant
will stand the fury of their attack. AZ
they can NOV down trees eight and ten
paIings. Their hide Is very thick and
their muscles so hard that planters tell
tales of animals which it has required
sixteen 45-cahbre bullets to drop. Natur-
ally they are most dangerous game TO
hunt. few indulge In the sport and even
those few always keep a large sized tree
In sight. We heard of one planter who
went alone not far from his plantation
and. being freed by a big brute. dropped
his gun accidentally after the first shot.
the bull remained battering away at the
tree for two days. during which tho VIC
tim in the tree had neither food, drink
nor sleep Fortunately the animal he
coming convinced at last that the tree
was too strong for him, went away and
the man got safely home. but has lost all
ambition for buffalo hunting.
Java also abounds in snakes of every
variety, large and small There are py-
tbons large enough to swallow a calf or
small deer. but the most dangerous are
the small varieties many OF which are
extremely poisonous, their bites proving
fatal inside OF an hour. Great care.
therefore, Is required. especially when
prowling about old ruins.