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on two others of smaller dimensions: Conraet Antoniz me fecit. Ilacoe, 1599." Above the trun- nions are two eagles and a castle, and below these figures the words, Middleburg and Jacop Beurel, Burgomeister. In the Sitingil we were shown the celebrated Xgaisatomy. There is a curious tra- dition concerning another gun, the Kyhaisatomy, which is said to have travelled across the country to JJatavia without the aid of man or beast. .\1- tliough brouglit back to Soerakarta, and chained inside the Kraton, so strong was its predilection for the large city that it broke loose in tlu' dead of night and returned to Batavia, where it remained Diily iur a .-liort tinu', and \\as on the point of h'aving for some otlur bourne, when it was caught by some men. Tn manlfot its tHspleasure, it slipped from their hands;ind fell on the foot of one of them, produeuiii elephantiasis. Such was the terror cre- ateil b\' the niiaginarv jirowess of this 'j:\u\. lliat men retu.-ed to come near It. It was not until it vol., 11, (;

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