In this respect it seems relevant to point to the circumstance that the monuments of the smaller Soonda islands, much more conveniently placed for the unscrupulous spoiler because under less constant observation of the general public, are exposed to even greater danger than those in Java, Government supervision counting for worse than nothing. A Batavia paper denounced quite recently a traveller who had been visiting the Dutch East Indies and, armed with letters of recommendation from personages of the highest rank and title in the Netherlands, had been collecting curiosa and antiquities on a vast scale only to advertise his collection for sale as soon as unpacked after his return to Europe. It contained carved ornament from temples, sacrificial vessels and statuary from Bali, besides woven goods, implements used in _batikking_, musical instruments, _wayang_-puppets, etc. The profit attached to this sort of globe-trotting is enormous, since the coveted objects can be acquired for a mere song by taking advantage of the influential assistance secured through letters of recommendation over high-sounding names. A hint from those in authority goes a very long way with the docile native, in fact goes the whole way of appropriation at a nominal value, and the big official who left his post in the exterior possessions, bound for home, also quite recently, with fifty boxes of antique ware of a different kind, collected in his residency, made certainly as good a haul as the distinguished, brilliantly recommended tourist. [Illustration] FOOTNOTES: [87] So from the bones of those inhumed sing The germs of life and of the spirits. [88] Cf. Miss MARTINE TONNET’S article in the _Bulletin of the Dutch Archaeological Society_, 1908, on the work of the Archaeological Commission. [89] Cf. Professor J. H. C. KERN’S paper on Sivaïsm and Buddhism in Java apropos of the old Javanese poem _Sutasoma_, Amsterdam, 1888. [90] The Pangerans of Giri continued for almost two centuries to exercise their spiritual authority, opposing the supremacy of the Princes of New Mataram until the Susuhunan Mangku Buwono II. had the last of them assassinated with all the male members of his family (1680). [91] _Mojo_ means “fruit”, _pahit_ means “_bitter_”. [92] _Kerto_ means “shining, glittering”. [93] These dates are taken from Miss MARTINE TONNET’S paper in the _Bulletin of the Dutch Archaeological Society_ already cited, where she calls attention to the ardent religious life in that region at that time, as also attested to by the zodiac-beakers, mostly unearthed in Kediri and bearing dates between 1321 and 1369. [94] More generally known as Giovanni da Bologna, though a native of Douay. [95] On the summit of the Wilis are four heaps of debris and two enclosed terraces; on its eastern slope is a place of prayer, consisting of three terraces with bas-reliefs and called Penampihan, where the natives still congregate for sacrifice.