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 INDIAN ISLANDERS. 211 figure of the five-faced Siwa ; and among the ruin- ed temples at Mojopahit, we have several figures of Buddha. Of the third and hist class of images I have little to say. In the- least civilized parts of the island, as the mountains of the Sundas, and par- ticularly the eastern province of Banyuwangi, there are found a variety of images extremely rude and ill-fashioned, and which, frequently, by the ex- tensive decomposition which their surfaces have un- dergone, appear of greater antiquity than those already described. These are, in all probability, representations of the local objects of worship among the Javanese before they adopted Hindu- ism, and which probably, as is still the case in Bali, continued to receive some share of their a- doration, after that event. The ancient inscriptions found in Java are of four kinds. 1 . Sanskrit inscriptions in the Dewan- agari character. 2. Inscriptions in the ancient Javanese, or Kawi. 3. Inscriptions in an anti- quated but barbarous form of the present Javan- ese ; and, 4. Inscriptions which cannot be decy- phered, and are probably the characters in which the Sunda was written. A very few inscriptions only are found in Dewanagari, and these are con- fined to the two most distinguished remains of Hinduism on Java, Brambanan, and Singhasari. Colonel Mackenzie, in 1811, discovered a long