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mariners, broke into eruption in 1843. There are no 

 navigable rivers, although small streams are numerous, 

 and in many cases are entirely utilised for purposes of 

 irrigation, an art which is brought to great perfection. 

 Many become dried up in the east monsoon. A numlier 

 of small lakes exist, some at considerable elevations, and 

 formed either in old craters or in depressions caused by 

 volcanic disturbances ; and these too are largely used as 



KOYAL PALACE, BALI. 



reservoirs to supply water for irrigation, the plains and 

 lowlands being highly cultivated and exceedingly fertile. 

 Bali has been well described as an old-fashioned Java. 

 The manners and customs of that island as they existed 

 a couple of hundred years ago are here preserved almost 

 unchanged. The people are scarcely to be distinguished 

 from the Javanese in appearance, excepting that they are 

 perhaps a little taller and more sturdy in build. They 

 live in villages surrounded by clay walls, and their houses 



