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Rh tombs of their departed royal family, and the keepers were so strict at one time, that no European was permitted to enter the sacred precincts. They would not even allow their own countrymen to set foot inside until they had gone through certain preparatory forms of prayer, ablutions, and other ceremonies. But frequent contact with Europeans has abolished some of these strict prohibitory rules, and they now seem quite pleased to show strangers through the gloomy place.

In the second court there are two sheds, called pondopos, which are used as a kind of salle d' attente for the cortége or suite attending any royal personages who may have visited the third court, in the centre of which is another plataharan, for royalty to dream and wish in. In this royal court are interred the mortal remains of Prince Modjaagoang, who, having died a little more than forty years ago, owes the honour of being deposited in this Koobooran to the fact of his