128 LIFE IN JAVA.
flight of steps and entered through the principal gate, the ornaments of which are in the Arabesque style. We walked through several of the deserted rooms and corridors. The sole article of furniture left in the palace is the bed of Sultan Hamanku Bewono lY., a low, long four-poster, with traces of gilding on many parts. Some of the rooms had even been divested of their flooring, the planks having been removed to other houses. Those Avhich remain shew signs of having once been painted and partially gilt.
After passing through a number of courts in a lower part of the building, we were conducted down another flight of steps leading to a tunnel, at the end of which we came into a kind of circular- shaped court, with a large tank in the centre, and a gallery all round, supported by arches. This tank is known as the Sumoor Gamalan (" musical spring"), and is something similar to a bath-house in the grounds of the Rajah of Burdwan, in India.
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