WONDERS OF THE PAST

Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1925, Page 3

WONDERS OF THE PAST

ORE TIIE BEATEN TRACK. A BURIED CITY. AUCKLAND. January ti. 'i'll have been in Cauilmilia. walked where the myriads trod who built a gigantic city, mighty temples and great paved roads lost till now in the mists of antiquity, is the lmppy experience of .Mrs Set'toii-J,ones, at present in Auckland. Air and Mrs Scfton-Je.ues arc on a world lour which Inis a three-fold aspect. to visit their daughter. Lady Manning, wife of Sir AY. 11. .Manning, Governor of (‘eyli'ui, to see the wonder, fill temples of Indo-Cliir.a. and to

make a tall upon the ( ongregation of friends throughout their trip. Marvellous was the experience when they saw a danre given at the temple of Ankher. buried for centuries in the Cambodian forests and now being cleared by the Erem >!i • I lii.s temnle which has three miles of closely sculptured stone figures with hands of finely modelled figurines, is as large as ail Auckland. This is but one of t.e temples; there are others besides ;.rd

a city of vast proportions yet to I e mu ovored where has laid buried t lie history of a people that must have been a mighty and virile race, and who nave passed without aught hut a tradition, hi Java Mrs Set'ton—l cues saw a wonderful tradition come to light when the daughter and three coinpaiyiuus of Djokjakarta danced before them a dance that had been handed down for two thousand years. 'I lie dancers, who J were littl" girls of about twelve, fol lh"v cannot d iuee alter 11 icy are no 11-l 1 - i ieil, and marriage comes early in tins Eastern land, glittered villi jewels. The Sultan’s (laughter wore a breastplate that "as i'<iu ipi i.si a I ol rallies, emeralds, diamonds, thickly clustcrcil together, which sparkled in the light, while the guests -at at golden tables on marble floors. Another interesting place ot call wan at the remarkable city ol Saigon, where they stayed with the Governor of Co-chin-China. It was from here that |hey left to visit, the remarkable huned temples, which cover as much ground as all this town, and as yep only one temple is uncovered. 3 her" are ninny others in he partly seen as well as Hie remains ol a vast city. From Cambodia, Mr and Airs Sefton-.lnnex s ;l ib'il for Singapore where they '"'ere Lie guests.of the Governor. Sir Laurence Guillcmarc, and then they went t 1 Java. Ml- H. S'Ttou-Joni'S is engaged in studying Ids special lit*' “work and s a Fellow of the Authropiiligienl Society and also a Fellow of the Royal Asia’ic Society and probably the only Englishman who has ever visited Trim!, the site of the remains of the earliest known human being, the I’rithecanthopus Erect us. which w ore discovered |,v Dr. Dubois. Mrs Sell on-J nues “ a'pupil of Sir Elimlers Retro-'. She is alco a Fellow of the Royal Ilislo 'i'-al Society and is particularly intore Jed in the history of the 13th. century. Mrs Sefte.n-.lones has written oil tin' history of the present headquarters of the Friends’ Meeting House. London, which began as a Roman cemetery, and was then a Saxon tannery and the residence uf the Earls of Devonshire I efore they became dukes. 'lhe well are of the body of Friends, to which they 1,(0 1, belong, is \erv dear to both travellers. 'I hey are visting every eongre,ration throughout Australia and N- w Zealand, and Mr SeftonMi mes wall address the Friends of Auckland on Sunday. They intend going to Uahforni.i. British Columbia and the l mU'd States on this question before >'eturning to England.