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Rh strange advertisements that sometimes appear in our cheap periodicals?

There are but few sights to be seen in Batavia. The archæologist will doubtless be interested by a small museum of antiquities in the European quarter of the town, where he will find many relics of Buddhism, brought from the interior of Java, Bali, and Madura, especially from the ruins of Boroobodoo, Singasari, and Brambanan; and among the rest a group of Hindoo deities, found at Bali, where, Mahomedanism having but few converts, they are still worshipped.

There are also numerous kinds of weapons, shields, chain armour, and other arms, used by the natives of the neighbouring isles, and some ancient urns, vessels, and jewelry.

The Governor's town palace, as we have already mentioned, is now converted into public offices; all but one room, which is set apart for portraits of the Governor-Generals from the first to Pahud,