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Title: Java, Sumatra and the other islands of the Dutch East Indies
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Cabaton, Antoine, b. 1863 Miall, Bernard, 1876-
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ous, although its aspect is less forbidding. After the last-named volcano the series breaks up intoa country of plateaux of inconsiderable height, untilthe high plain of Bandung is reached, around whichare grouped Burangrang, Tangkuban Prahu, and Tam-pomas. Distant and remote, in an isolation increased bythe majesty of its wooded slopes and its ever-smokingcrater, rises Slamat, which stands, as it were, a sentinelbetween the volcanic groups of the west and the centre ofthe island. Among the latter are Rogo Djambangan,Prahu, the magnificent Sindoro, Sumbing, and Merapi,which rise in the neighbourhood of the tableland ofDieng, from which the spurs of Prahu rise. To the eastof Merapi is Gunung Sewu, or Diiizendgebergte (theThousand Mountains) whose valleys are so fresh andfertile that their ideal beauty is famous throughout theisland. To the south of Surabaja the series of the easternvolcanoes begins with Gunung Kelut, or the Broom ;then comes Kawi, then Ardjuna, of the many crests; then
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ri! JAVA AND MADURA 49 Tengger, and Semaru, the highest peak in Java (12,300feet). In this region was estabHshed of old the famousIndo-Javanese kingdom of Madjapahit, which succumbed,at the end of the fifteenth century, or early in the six-teenth, to the armed proselytism of Islam; but thevanquished faith held out for years on the volcanic slopesto which its last professors fled, and left behind it notonly the ruins of many remarkable Hindu temples on theDieng tableland, but a long-enduring memory in themind of the people. The volcanoes, which have greatly contributed to thephysical integrity of Java, by emitting, in the shape oflava, cinders, and the alluvial ooze of the many rivers,the material of the many islands of which it must oncehave consisted, have no less added to its beauty. Theirmajestic outlines, their mighty flanks, clad with thedensest foliage, or, more rarely, rising stark and bare,crowned with clouds of burning vapour, seamed witha thousand streams and geysers, all mu

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