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Bali and Lombok together form a separate Eesidency, 

 the seat of government being at Buleleng on the north 

 coast of the former island. There are still seven king- 

 doms or districts ruled over by native princes, who are 

 in many cases practically possessed of despotic power, 

 though all are more or less subservient to European 

 rule. The two Dutch provinces are Buleleng in the 

 north and Jembrana in the west. The population of 

 the island is very dense, a late estimate placing it at 

 802,930, or 386 to the square mile, which nearly equals 

 that of the densely populated parts of Java. 



3. Lombok. 



Lombok is thus called only by Europeans, from a 

 village on the northern shore of the island. The Malay 

 traders call it Tana Sasak, or the Sasak country, from 

 the name of the people who inhabit it. To the Balinese, 

 the conquerors of the island, it is known as Selaparang. 



The island is divided from Bali by the Lombok Strait, 

 which, though only 23 miles in breadth, is of great 

 depth. Larger and more compact than Bali, being of a 

 sub-quadrangular shape, it is about 55 miles long by 45 

 broad, and has an area of 2090 square miles. Two 

 mountain ranges traverse it from east to west, the 

 northern volcanic and of great height, the southern of 

 recent calcareous formation and low, but the chains are 

 nearly joined by a lateral secondary range which divides 

 the intervening valley into two. The eastern part of the 

 northern chain is composed of the giant volcanic mass of 

 Gunong Einjani, better known to Europeans as the Peak 

 of Lombok. Its height has been variously given 

 between the limits of 8000 and 14,000 feet, but Craw- 

 furd, apparently on Dr. Zollinger's authority, fixes it at 



