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The Malay Archipelago
Volume I. (of II.)

CHAPTER XI
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We entered through a rather handsome brick gateway supported by hideous Hindu deities in stone.

Within was an enclosure with two square fish-ponds and some fine trees; then another gateway through which we entered into a park.

On the right was a brick house, built somewhat in the Hindu style, and placed on a high terrace or platform; on the left a large fish-pond, supplied by a little rivulet which entered it out of the mouth of a gigantic crocodile well executed in brick and stone.

The edges of the pond were bricked, and in the centre rose a fantastic and picturesque pavilion ornamented with grotesque statues.

The pond was well stocked with fine fish, which come every morning to be fed at the sound of a wooden gong which is hung near for the purpose.


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