But the tale of excitement and adventure is rather spoilt by her blow- by-blow account of problems getting sponsors, financial hassles and wrangles with the fractious film crew and support crew who accompany her in separate craft.
Deadly contention amongst the various [acute{e}]minences grises dancing attendance upon Pakubuwana was yet another by-blow. Overall, his incompetence in negotiating a route to safety through the snares lying in wait for him in the manifest world--as represented by faction at court, by fighting with the Europeans and Chinese, and by rebellion and quarrels about the succession, together with what must have seemed to be ineptitude on a Himalayan scale when it came to calling to his aid the hidden world in determining the outcome of events--helped to bring to an end this Islamising influence, or at least seriously to attenuate it.
They are not a curious by-blow of a witty (and smutty) secular novelist who, not untypically for his time, made a living by inculcating the doctrines of a Church in which he did not believe.