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sewers, into which the tide is admitted at high-water and 

 allowed to flow out when it has ebbed, carrymg all the sew- 

 age with it into the sea. The town consists chiefly of one 

 long, narrow street, along the sea-side, devoted to business, 

 and principally occupied by the Dutch and Chinese mer- 

 chants' offices and warehouses, and the native shops or ba- 

 zars. This extends northward for more than a mile, gradu- 

 ally merging into native houses, often of a most miserable 

 description, but made to have a neat appearance by being 

 all built up exactly to the straight line of the street, and be- 

 ing generally backed by fruit-trees. This street is usually 

 thronged with a native population of Bugis and Macassar 

 men, who wear cotton trowsers about twelve inches long, 

 covering only from the hip to half-way down the thigh, and 

 the universal Malay sarong, of gay checked colors, worn 

 round the waist or across the shoulders in a variety of ways. 

 Parallel to this street run two short ones, which form the 

 old Dutch town, and are inclosed by gates. These consist 

 of private houses, and at their southern end is the fort, the 

 church, and a road at right angles to the beach, containing 

 the houses of the Governor and of the principal ofiicials. 

 Beyond the fort again, along the beach, is another long street 

 ol native huts and many country-houses of the ti'adesmen 

 and merchants. All around extend the flat rice-fields, now 

 bare and dry and forbidding, covered with dusty stubble 

 and weeds. A few months back these were a mass of verd- 

 ure, and their barren appearance at this season ofiered a 

 striking contrast to the perpetual crops on the same kind of 

 country in Lombock and Bali, where the seasons are exactly 

 similar, but where an elaborate system of irrigation produces 

 the efiect of a perpetual spring. 



The day after my arrival I paid a visit of ceremony to 

 the Governor, accompanied by my friend the Danish mer- 

 chant, who spoke excellent English. His excellency was 

 very polite, and ofiered me every facility for travelling about 

 the country and prosecuting my researches in natural his- 

 tory. We conversed in French, which all Dutch ofiicials 

 speak very well. 



Finding it very inconvenient and expensive to stay in the 

 town, I removed at the end of a week to a little bamboo 



