sequence of the world, and seek consolation in the promise of their new faith that the Lord will not deal wrongly with his servants. The life of nations, like the life of men, starts running as the mountain torrent and meets many an obstacle before it swells to a broad river in the plains and flows tranquilly and mightily to the sea; also for Java it is written: ... Non anche, l’opra del secol non anche è piena.[86] [Illustration] FOOTNOTES: [49] _Batikking_ is the art of dyeing woven goods by immersing them in successive baths of the required colour, protecting the parts to be left undyed by applying a mixture of beeswax and resin. [50] A _stupa_, lit. a mound, a tumulus, is a memorial structure, sometimes raised over a relic of the Buddha, one of the eight thousand portions into which his ashes were divided, or a tooth, or any other fragment of his remains. The combination of such a memento of the Most Chaste with the emblem of supreme virility is syncretism indeed! [51] Professor Dr. H. H. JUYNBOLL in the _Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch Indië_, Ser. vii., vol. vi., nr. 1. [52] Those not in the Government service: planters, industrials, etc., always of lower caste in general, especially official esteem, than the select who draw their salaries from Batavia. Hence the native designation of such an inferior individual as a _particulier saja_, “only” a private person. [53] _Recho_ or _rejo_ is the name given to any sort of statue. [54] From _circulus_, circle, something round, which rolls easily away into oblivion as it is intended to; but, if nothing else, _la folie circulaire_ keeps the fiction of governmental guidance and control alive. [55] Speaking at a meeting of the _Royal Geographical Society of the Netherlands_, December 27, 1902. [56] Vishnu’s _vahana_ or bearer, the monster-bird. [57] By G. P. ROUFFAER, _Indische Gids_, February 1903. [58] The fall of Mojopahit has been put at 1478 (Javanese chronicles), 1488 (VETH’S _Java_, 2nd ed.) and between 1515 and 1521 (ROUFFAER). [59] Paku Buwono, like Paku Alam, means “nail which fastens the universe.” [60] Lit. “the one who has the world in his lap,” _i.e._ the supporter (ruler) of the world. [61] Lit. “the one who has the empire in his lap,” _i.e._ the supporter (ruler) of the empire. [62] Lit. “the one who has the universe in his lap,” _i.e._ the supporter (ruler) of the universe. [63] A fourth semi-independent domain, created at the expense of Jogjakarta for the benefit of Pangeran Nata Kusuma, ally of the British during the troubles of 1811 and 1812. [64] Common abbreviations, in speaking and writing, of Surakarta and Jogjakarta; Solo is, to put it correctly, the name of the place where Paku Buwono II., after his old _kraton_ had been destroyed by fire in the civil war diligently fostered by the Company, built the present one, _Surakarta Hadiningrat_, _i.e._ the most excellent city of heroes.