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A Real Sultan's Strange Body-Guard 



OF Eastern monarchs none retain 

 such a strange and picturesque 

 bodyguard as the Sultan of D3^okja, 

 one of Java's few remaining native 

 rulers. Surrounded by hordes of 

 strangely uniformed retainers, consist- 

 ing of soldiers, musicians, singers, 

 dancers, bearers of the royal fan and 

 umbrella, pipe, and betel-box, his court 

 presents an extraordinary spectacle, re- 

 calling a comic opera on a colossal scale. 



Popular Science Monthly 



The time to visit this court is dur- 

 ing one of the many native festivals. 

 Then one may witness a sight which 

 for Oriental pomp and grandeur and 

 startling effect has certainly no equal. 

 (Jn that occasion the troops appear 

 in the weirdest of costumes. There 

 are uniforms of every shade and 

 color — black, white, blue, pink, and 

 green — uniforms made up of several 

 colors, striped uniforms, and uniforms 

 enriched with gold lace and other trim- 

 mings. Some take the form of tightly- 



The general 



of the Sultan 



of Dyokja's 



army 



The sultan of Dyokja, in Java, maintains a court which must be the envy of the comic 



opera librettists. The uniforms are all queer, and the etiquette is individual and very 



Javanese, especially in minor matters of oriental deportment 



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