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these pillars. On entering into conversation with the Wodono, he told me that the great battle, known in Javanese history as the Brotoyudo, took place here. The storj of this battle may be told in very few words. Ardjiino, the brother of Biemo, became, on the death of his father Pandu, the heir to the whole Dieng, but, being too young to manage his own affairs, they were intrusted to the care of an elder member of the family, who, giving offence to Ngastino, king of the country now called Pekalongan, this sovereign marched with a great force up the Prau, and, before many days, Drought desolation to the once populous town of Dieng. After this it became a penal settlement, or land of exile, for the refractory, who, during the period of their banishment, erected these temples to expiate their crimes.

Xext morning, after an early breakfast, we rode to the Talogo Warno, a lake of many colours, about a mile beyond the Dieng, in an opposite di-

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