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326 HISTORY OF JAVA CONTINUED. quakes, which terrified the inhabitants of Java. This was the same eruption to which the Portu- guese were witnesses, and which, by their account, hid the sun for three whole days, and destroyed ten thousand souls. (A. S. 15^23, A. D. 1601.)— The Senopati was succeeded by his second son, Mas Jolangy called after his death Pandmbahan Krapyaki from the spot where he died, in confonnity with the uni- versal practice of the Indian islanders. This prince, less active and ambitious than his prede- cessor, added but the single province of Prono- Togo to his dominions. He was chiefly occupied, indeed, in a contention for authority with the prince of Pugar, his elder brother, and in suppress- ing a variety of those rebellions which are natu- rally incident to a dominion acquired by violence, and maintained without skill. In the year 15'-<^4 of Salivana, (160^,) the Ja- vanese writers record a total eclipse of the sun. (A. S. 1535, A. D. 16130— The eldest son of the last prince succeeded his father, taking the name of Adi Mataram. He and his son alone took the Arabic title of Sultan, their predecessors contenting themselves with the humbler appella- tion of Panambahan, and their successors tak- ing the spiritual distinction of Susunan. In Javanese history he is called Sultan Agung, or the Great Sultan^ a title which he undoubtedlj