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HISTORY OF JAVA CONTINUED* 3'25 ♦ of an advanced party of the Mataram forces, who, unknown to hnn, was the Senopati himself, he was worsted in the single combat which ensued, and thrown wounded from his horse. The conqueror, without offering him any further injury, directed a lame mare to be brought, on which, bare backed, and with a miserable bridle, he mounted his dis- comfited rival, and in this plight dismissed him to his chief, to tell the story of his disgrace. It is necessary to explain, that, in Java, it is considered a disgrace to ride a mare ; none but the meanest of the people using mares for the saddle. The troops of Pasuruhan, after the loss of their leader, took to flight, and the chief of that province, to make his peace with the victor, put the wounded Kani' ten to death, by pouring melted tin down his throat, and transmitted the dead body, with gifts and proffers of submission, to the Senopati. This prince died in the year of Salivana 1523, leaving the reputation of the bravest and most in- trepid, though not the wisest, of the princes of Java. He owed a large portion of his success to the counsels of his uncle Mondoroko^ by whose wisdom and prudence his ardour and impatience were tempered and restrained. (A. S. 1508, A. D. 1686.)— In the first year of the reign of this prince, there was, say the na- tive writers, a dreadful eruption of a volcano, ac«  companied by showers of ashes, and violent earth- f