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12,375, which measurement, since it coincides very 

 nearly with one taken by Lieutenant K. ff". Powell, Pi.K, 

 during the voyage of the Marchesa, may be considered 

 tolerably accurate. This volcano is, like all the others 

 in the island, practically extinct, although a thin hne of 

 smoke is sometimes seen issuing from near the summit. 

 It has never been ascended by any European. 



As in Bali, there are numerous lakes, mostly formed 

 in extinct craters or depressions caused by volcanic 

 action, and they are similarly used for irrigation purposes. 

 The largest, Segara-anak, or the " Baby Sea," is at an 

 elevation of nearly 9000 feet, but is of no great extent. 

 The rivers are also small but numerous, and are unfit for 

 navigation, but in the rainy season they bring down vast 

 volumes of water, and are at all times used to irrigate 

 the land by a system as elaborate and careful as that 

 obtaining in BaH, if not more so. There are few places 

 in Java so highly cultivated and tended as the fertile 

 valley which occupies the middle of the island. Large 

 crops of maize and rice are grown, the latter being ex- 

 ported in considerable quantity. Coffee, cattle, and 

 horses are also represented in the exports. The handi- 

 crafts are not equal to those of Bah, the Sasaks being 

 especially an agricultural people, but excellent krisses 

 and other weapons are made, and a large quantity of 

 cottons are woven. Chinese copper money is the only 

 coin current with the natives of the interior. 



Lombok is less known and less civilised than Bah. 

 The Sasaks — apparently the origiual inhabitants, for there 

 is no trace of an earher race — are a Malay people allied 

 to the Javanese and Bugis, but speaking a peculiar 

 language akin to that of West Sumbawa, and written in 

 the Balinese character, which, with a few minor differ- 

 ences, is the same as the Javanese. They are Moham- 



