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or more. These are otherwise clean enough, and the spare time of 

 the native servants — and they appear to have plenty of it — is 

 occupied in perpetual watering. There is, of course, a fort, and 

 equally of course, a jj/cm. The cemetery is significantly full. 

 Almost all the tombs are kept whitewashed, and, as many of 

 them are curious chapel-like erections with flying buttresses, the 



A NATIVE STREET MACASSAR. 



effect at a distance is something between an ice -palace and 

 a clothes' drying -ground. The houses of the Dutch residents, 

 shadowed in peepul or galela trees, stand back a little distance 

 from the road — long, low, and cool, with thick white posts at their 

 entrance-^ates. A Ion"' avenue of magnificent overarchino; trees 

 leads eastward from the pier, adown which the Governor may be 

 seen driving any afternoon in a four-in-hand with sky-blue reins. 

 It is lighted by means of lamps hung midway between the trees, 

 for the Hollander, even although gas may be unattainable, considers 

 civilisation incomplete without these adjuncts. Then, too, there is 



