VII.] 



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out to stare at us as we passed. All were armed with spears, 

 which one w^ould have imagined no little hindrance to them in 

 their ordinary avocations, but they appeared rarely or never to 



KRIS WITH WORKED GOLD SCABBARD, SUMBAWA. 



leave their hands. One party we surprised were screaming with 

 laughter and splashing one another with water, old and young 

 alike, — rather contrary to the usual quiet and undemonstrative 

 haljits of those of Malav race. We were informed that the Sultan 



