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��CHAPTER IV.

Our first post on the road to Djodjokarta was Karta-soera, named from the first old Kraton, the nuns of which, but a short distance from the road, present notliiu^ of interest, as httle remains to be seen l)ut k)w bare walls. It was a custom with Javanese princes to change the situation of the royal residence every hundred years. A new Kraton thus awaited the whole connnunity, who made, their exodus from their old home, carryin<T with them all the woodun materials reipiisite to erect a new one on the site allotted to each.

Some wav further on we ])asst'd a kind of raised circus, walled in l)y nuid mounds, and overgrown with gi-ass. In this place the ])rinces, as in days

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