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��CHAPTER III.

The next day, while waiting for an answer to the request we had made to the Susuhunan, that he would grant us an interview, we amused ourselves by going into the Kraton.* This celebrated place, the lions of which we were anxious to see, is a mile square, and suiTounded by a high wall about twelve feet in height, and two or tlu'ee thick. Some of the Kratons have four principal gates, but this one of Soerakarta has oidy two. Within its walls are the ])ahice of the Eni])cror, the houses of the princes and nol)iHt.y about the court, and a hirge village of atta]i huts, iiiliabit('(l by the servants of the respect- ive households.

IlavingcntcredyWe crossed the.l loicn Alov u, and

a kiu<^ ivini si;,MiifiL'S, a ))lacc uf kings.
 * 'nic\v(]nl Krjitoii is sjiid to liavt,' been dcrivoil from I'atu

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