avarice will cease tormenting and glad content will dwell in the _negri jawa_ for ever. So be it! [Illustration] FOOTNOTES: [163] That which I saw, seemed to me A smile of all creation; ... [164] J. J. MEINSMA, _Babad Tanah Jawa_, text and notes, 1874-1877, commented upon by Dr. J. L. A. BRANDES in _Het Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 1901_. [165] The insurrection headed by Raden Suryakusumo broke out in 1703 and, according to letters from the Governor-General then in function at Batavia, to the Honourable Seventeen at home, this Javanese Hotspur gave a good deal of trouble. Having regained his liberty, he rebelled again at Tagal, was captured once more and brought to Batavia, whence the Dutch authorities sent him into banishment at the Cape of Good Hope, agreeably to the request of Mangku Rat IV. Cf. J. K. J. DE JONGE, _De Opkomst van het Nederlandsche Gezag over Java_, vol. viii. [166] To _rampok_ is to attack one, crowding on him, generally with lances. The _rampokking_ of tigers after they are caught and again set free in a square formed by rows of men with pikes, is still a favourite amusement. [167] _Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch Indië_, vi., 1 and 2. [168] J. K. J. DE JONGE, _Op. cit._, vol. x., p. 329. [169] The story points a moral not less relevant to western than to eastern ethics and runs as follows: Once upon a time there lived in Mathura a courtesan renowned for her beauty and her name was Vasavadatta. On a certain day her maid, having been sent to buy perfume at a merchant’s, who had a son called Upagoopta, and having stayed out rather long, she said: --It appears, my dear, that this youth Upagoopta pleases you exceedingly well, since you never buy in any shop but his father’s. --Daughter of my master, answered the maid, besides being comely, clever and polite, Upagoopta, the son of the merchant, passes his life in observing the law. These words awakened in Vasavadatta’s heart a desire to meet Upagoopta and she bade her maid go back and make an appointment with him. But the youth vouchsafed no other reply than:--My sister, the hour has not yet arrived. Vasavadatta thought that Upagoopta refused because he could not afford to pay the high price she demanded for her favours, and she bade her maid tell him that she did not intend to charge him a single cowry if only he would come. But Upagoopta replied in the same words:--My sister, the hour has not yet arrived. Shortly after, the courtesan Vasavadatta, annoyed by the jealousy of one of her lovers, who objected to her selling herself to a wealthy old voluptuary, ordered her servants to kill the troublesome fellow. They did so without taking sufficient precautions against discovery; the crime became known and the King of Mathura commanded the executioner to cut off her hands, feet and nose, and abandon her thus mutilated among the graves of the dead.