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Rh memory of his two faithful wives returned to him, and he regretted the hasty part he had acted towards them. He happened one day to be ruminating before the altar, and regarding from time to time the cold faces of his wives on each side, when the defeated Rajah Bandong entered, and discovered his vanquisher.

'"So, so!" cried he, in a voice of thunder, "I have caught you at last, have I? What is your power to mine, now you have not Durga near you? Be thou, cruel man, for ever seated on that spot, and become like those two poor victims of thy tyranny!"

So saying, he left the spot, and Slambey was at once metamorphosed into a cold stone figure.

About a mile from Manduot, we stopped at a little village called Botchong, situated at the summit of a hill, below which flows the river Progo. Alighting, and walking down to the water, which we wished to cross, we had to wait until the