Show N JJ w A Visit to Boro Bolo tho limo Greatest Buddhist THE PYRAMIDS LI ECLIPSED Monument on Earth How It Looks by 11 14 Moonlight ht and Sunlight it Was Burled ed Pom poll fur for Six Hundred Years but Is IsNow IsNow Now Excavated Pictures In Stono Stone of a n Thousand Yours Years Ago AgoA A Trip to tho Ruins Ruined Temples of Jayn Jaa Which Have Thousands of Statues of o and a n Look at tho the Goddess With tho the Thousand And Miles Allies of Wonderful Carvings Carving Carvin ti s Temples and Their Hideous Guardians t I w r FRANK G CARPENTER WAY out here In tho Uie heart henrt of ot Java In the midst of ot the Indi Indian an on pecan ocean and nn degrees bo boo loa lo the equator are arc of at atthe the most wonderful ruins upon I have Just returned from a visit of at exploration to them and my IllY i pen Ien cn halts halls ns as I try 1 to describe des thorn them I have hove seen the I Parthenon at lit Athens Athena the tho Forum of old ohl nome name the thC myriad ruins or of India and tho the pyramids of Egypt but nowhere like Uke the mho remains of ot tho the old temples of ot Java They are scattered oer over a n vast territory Some Sonic of ot them cover many man acres neres and some are arc miles In extent The most wonderful of ot nil all lies lIell within a few tell miles of It ItIs ItIs ItIs Is known as the Temple Templo of ot Boro Doro floe Doe doer or GREATEST MONUMENT This temple Is U the thu greatest monument ever eer erected to It surpasses our the temples lu of ot Slam and the tho giant IJu of ot Bangkok It li to moro more wonderful won wonderful Il than the tho Japanese creations in bronze and stone and an larger than any Buddhist monument In Its China Some home of you OU have seen Lieen tho the pyramids Tho The great Ireat greatest est et of ot them Is Ia that of ot which covers Coers eos era thirteen acres and upon which several s hundred thousand men Inn are aro said eaid to have hae worked for twenty years yearn eaI It If that be bo so ca 0 the of at Boro must represent the labor of ot more than halt half a n million It Is If not quite to so large os as the tho great pyramid 1 but the labor lubor up upon upon on It was Infinitely greater renter 1 have climbed the of ot and have hae explored Its UK Interior by b the light of or magnesium wire TIre It Is a huge mans of ot stones stance laid up In n terraces In pyramid pyra mid shape shalle There Is 18 no decoration no carving nothing but great blocks of at stone THREE MILES OF CARVINGS This Thill eo called Temple of at Dora Bore Hoe floe doer Is also pyramidal d 11 but bul It Is ono one mass of at carving and statues statute It Is built upon upen a vast stone atone platform rising tor ter terrace race by terrace to lo a 11 gigantic cupola cupolo more than feet leet above the tho Vase lase At Atthe Atthe Atthe the bottom It Is oo feet teet squaw jUI 1 sad It covers I judge from eight to ten acres of ground All the tho terraces are decor decorated decorated with statues and their walls walla with bas of wonderful carvings There are arc It has h been found by actual measure more than three miles of ot carved 11 figures some two or three feet teet In height some no larger than your finger and nil all alias as exquisitely cut ns liS though picked out with a 0 knife by some lOmo patient Chinese I counted In places eight e ht different figures In a space a 0 yard Y ll square and lInd such figures continue right along around and around the terraces terrace so 80 that the tho length Is about three miles Every l very figure must have taken weeks week to tomake tomake tomake make When It Is remembered that the tho work Is that tIIt of at an nn artist you ou can see HOC that n a vest t population must have havo been engaged upon it II Altogether thousands thousand of lives dives are aro bottled l up In these thelle the lives of at the r net telling tho the story of ot their times to the present resent Some Borne of at atthe the figures are wonderfully lifelike II te III 0 Every face ace has a 1 different expression and some soma smile and frown as though alive LIFE IN JAVA 1000 YEARS YEAnS AGO I cant give ghe you the number of or statues of Buddha There are aro five hundred large ones olles representing him In a sit sitting sitting ting held t In the different positions p he held when he prophesied sled taught and thought before tore he was translated to the Nirvana There are ara figures represent representIng In Ing the to life Ute of the court and common people eople of this Island t a thousand years ngo ago I 1 went by b miles of ot elephants pen pea peacocks cocks and monkeys I 1 saw all tho the vege vegetables vegetables vegetables tables and anti fruits of or the tho tropics por put portrayed brayed In stone Stone Stene peasants drove stone atone buffaloes as IS they dragged stone plows through the atone stono fields There were stone atone men carrying stone rice rico up upon upon upon on their Shoulders and an stone women bearing water jars on their heads head ns as they did In the tho days Ilas of at the Scriptures There Thare were dancing elephants and ele ole elephants elephants carrying fans fana and state umbrellas um umbrellas umbrellas The life lite of the sea seD an nil well as the land Is depicted depleted upon tho the temple There are aro ships and boats In action and Indeed all nil the figures and scenes scene of the tho life Ute of ot these thele people a thousand years nars ago aco agoA agoA A THOUSAND YEARS YEAnS OLD Yes I mean a Q thousand years a ago go I IFor For It Is estimated that these thelle ruins arc alII at tit least ten tell or twelve t hundred years rears old The Tho temples were ware constructed when Buddhism was at nt Its Us height on this Island This beautiful carving caning was as done when our ancestors In the wilds of at England En land and Germany were eating with their fingers living In huts lints and sleeping on skins steins and at least six alx hun hundred hundred bund dred years ears before America was discos discovered ered Bred and that many man years before tho the people of Europe knew that Java exist existed existed ed But Dut why did the temples not root fall fail to r II I It t r f t f ft t 1 s 1 L r 1 I 1 A t t t 1 1 I AL to tot I r t t a u 1 f fT X T i Photographed for tor the tho News by Prank Frank O a Carpenter Cn 4 f t oNE mm OF o 01 TIm Till ON os llono IH HH H W o H H HA u A e pieces long lone ago They Ther lie In the heart henrt of ut the tho tropics on tho the edge of at lie tha equa equator equator tor and nOl they are aro washed by b tho the most terrible rains on earth carth They have havo lasted jy through their wonderful and also because e they have havo been burled from sight under un Cr for forest eat est and earth They are laid without mortar or ur cement Tho The stones are joined as all closely as an the tM finest mosaic and though many man of or them nr art exceed exceedingly exceedIngly small email they stilt still hold together When the Buddhist religion was IS overthrown In Java hundreds of years yearl ngo ago It Is supposed that the people who owned the temples les burled them In time trees grew upon them and for tor six lib hundred years they were as ns unknown to the natives of this part Jart of ot the tho world worM ns as were the tho ruins of Pompeii to the Italians The Tho Dutch took tool po on of ot tho the Island and kept It for tor several gen generations genera gens orations era and did not discover them Then the English conquered the Dutch and during their short abort rule In Java Jw found these temples Sir Stamford kept two hundred men busy for da digging out one OM of ot them nod since then the tho Dutch having hlo again taken often possession of the tho bland island have hn ve made mado further excavations FROM C TO BORO DOno But Dut let me mo describe my trip to Boro I went a Q halt half hour by rail and then took n a carriage c hauled by four tour ponies Jon Ie I had a 1 coachman and footman and the tho duty of the latter was seas Wa to jump from his perch on tho the of ot tho the carriage and thrash t the ponies Into n a gallop at every eer long Ion If hill hili He lie lieson son limes allowed the t team am to walk on l eVAl l but never when going up or down and we went almost on tho gallop over one ono hill hili lifter alter another until at last wo we came camo Into Inh a beautiful ariCY surrounded by b mighty volcanoes Wo cashed through a village of or bam barn bamboo boo 0 huts stopping outside to see pee the statue of and then went on through the valley until we came cune to the great groat hill hili upon which tho the temple stands The hill hili Is about feet above the plain It Is t just JURt about largo enough to hold holt the temple tom lo and the government test Rest House and It looks as IS though It were erected for tor the temple by br the hands han of at man The only anI stopping place Is at nt the Rest fleet House There are aro but bul few lew travelers who got BO so far Into the tM Interior and as all no one ono was RB expected tho tea manager of the Rest House was faS absent I found halt a t dozen servants i however anti and finally managed to scare i up a n bed and a n dinner of or rice fried eggs and nn coffee i I drove rove around and around the hill hili going up It and ana nn got trot my m first sight of the monument from Crom the steps of ot the th House There li is a wide avenue of ot trees leading from the tho hotel to the th tem tern temple temple pie The trees tree making a n great arbor reaching perhaps half a Q amile mile to tp where the he temple bogies begins Be De Between 1 e tween tw een the trees tree all along alone this wide avenue are arc gigantic stone Dodd Budd hn has sitting silting with their feet lying T on their knees knee and I looked past their peaceful faces through the I SON WILL PRESS SUIT N h ht t IO l 1 J i ii I i t x dr l l loi oi I f 7 i iw if Ji w f f 1 iz iJ h Unfortunate It la f the plight of Sit Sir Lionel vu t I i r f ambassador to lJ Hr lI I Olivia C n a s II en n Of al Lord It Ia making claim to a n legal birthright and nn Incidentally an am ancient scandal which hw has u lI ne nl hi bI r r l trees tr cs nt at what seemed In the tho dusk of or orthe the time early evening a mighty might pyramid 01 of carved greenl stone atone As It stood out against the blue sky It appeared to be cut train from one solid block bloc Its lIB ruined and broken condition being be Ins lost lostIn lostIn lostIn In tho the distance MOONLIGHT ON BOIlO DOnO My ry visit to the temple was made Iti lu company with a It Dutch civil wan vau went With me front from After fter dinner we sat at and smoked until tho the moon rose ruse and then strolled down through h the avenue and ana an took our first view of at time the great temple by We Ife had the full moon of the tropics under which everything every thinK about tho the tem temple tempIe temple pIe Was teas plainly visible but and an mellowed by b Its rays We Wo had to walk carefully for fear tear of or stepping on poisonous cobras course and we wo looked l fear fearfully fully tul Into the darker shadows before en entering teeing the terraces expecting that tha we might see the fierce eyes of ot a II tiger staring at us We stopped a 1 moment at tho the steps of the pyramid mud to admire the giant statue st tu of 01 Buddha which sits there Its beau beautiful features were here lifelike mId arid peace peaceful peaceful ful tul In the moonlight It Il seemed ns nil pure and fresh as ns though It had hOod been carved canell yesterday and we could not realize Us ltd Usage It age Tossing Passing up the steps we climbed from terrace to terrace to one gallery ry after tracing the carvings by tho the light of It the tho moon and at nt lri In last t reached tho time platform covering perhaps live five acres neres upon which aro are great cones or mounds of ot stones In each of ot which was wn wasa a 1 Bitting silting Buddha We mounted higher and higher up rough stone steps and fi ft finally I nally stopped lito Piled on the very top with the tho vast Vist monument below us What a place for n a temple or n a tomb Wo Wu were on n a 1 kill hill In the Iho center of n a great plateau surrounded by mountains In n an amphitheater of at time tile rolls pods on the tho very top of the time greatest ever eer mauls made to the gods At one aide of ut Uti hero two volcanoes and nil all about were elond capped mountains the time t plain at their feet feel extending exten around the little hill hili upon which the temple stands stan s AB As 8 we wo stood stOOl there the full moon wab just overhead Clear and beautiful It seemed to me that It looked down dOln pity on that mighty might work worl of man once to so O splendid but now not fast fait falling to ruins It touched tho the rough outlines outline with tender taner hands and ond apparently smoothed then them out and made the time great pile pule now new again a aln Under Us Its It II rays ras th the thEl became b lifelike The lines line of carvings were vivified and tho the whole I was much snore more grand than when w we saw nw f It Il on the tha following day In the gar ear earIsh I Ish sit light of the tho tropical sun I Tho Tito scene was strangely peaceful th thair the theair air was as liS soft Boft as that of ot nn no Ohio I Juno June and the night breezes front from the volcanic ranges about us whispered d stories of ot the past paRt as they swept over the ruins Wo We could hear the tho chirping of the crickets tho the chattering of ot the lizards and now and ond then the boat beat tK at beat b nt beat of the policemen on their wooden drums marking the tho hours A WILDERNESS OF BROKEN STA STATUES STATUES TUI TUES Coming down from tram the time summit wo we walked for tor miles about tho the cnn Ings studying the various characters and ami ane looking at al tho the In their niches above us Everywhere we see went we no saw nw the work of the Iconoclast There were hundreds of or beautiful stat statues statues statues ues without heads heRds Here a II great sitting was overthrown there was one outs with Kith Its Ita arm broken and farther on another which Had fled lost its lis toes totS and I misers lingers er In n order that some seine relic hunter ht add lId to fu o his hll collection For Por gener goner both buth natives and foreigners have hae been robbing the monument The Time lawns of ot some sonic of at the Dutch have been decor decorated d decorated or with Its status statues and the foreign forcin have amused themselves the 1 by b de decapitating d de the and carrying their h lr he ds way away Ii to uc use for target practice tee tice with rifles and pistols I 1 found a t hand lying on the top of at the structure u re and had I wished I could easily costly have tarried carried it ft off oct without die dis discovery covery cover SUmS FROM THE TILE TEMPLE TE ILE My ty next view of ot the might monument was at daybreak We had the servants call u us at lit 6 and after a II cup of or coT coffee c as Re black as Ink and Ind as tt thick as 88 molasses we e walked down to the tem pie p The Th flay clay 11 was Just breaking and the huge hURO pile looked ghostlike In the of the early morning It seemed lI med half bait fort tort halt half palace and had I be been n In China I 1 should have Imagined my m self set In III n front of ot some come mighty city elt I climbed to the top to watch the sun tun rl As All I stood there I could see It Il redden the th clouds upon the volcano of If Mc Me api Its UI rays struck the steam toom Us tie 11 ing log out of ot the volcano anti turned It to gold god As I 1 looked the mighty mountain spouted up a treat great jet of ot vapor lIpor h In the thc sun became a fountain of ot gold At the th acme Bime time the clouds cloude behind the mountain took on a n roseate hue and A 1 moment later tho the great round silver dink dl k of ot the sun aun lumped Jumped Jum up as It were ere Into 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