268 JAVAN MARRIAGES. [1697. 



for from the third and fourth Generation, the Children that 

 are horn of these Marriages, always go after the Javan Mode. 

 It is these sorts of Converts^ that generally fill the Malay 

 Church before rneution'd : The number of Converts^ is much 

 less, in that the Men have not the same Motives for Con- 

 version. The Christian Women^ being but very few for the 

 Christians themselves^ the Javans, can get none of them, let 

 them be as much Converts as they please, whereas the 

 scarcity of that Sex oftentimes occasions the Christian Men 

 to match with the Javan Women. 



The Marriages between the Javan Men and \Yomeu, are 

 concluded with few or no Ceremonies, in like manner as their 

 Burials are. They call themselves of the Sect of Tommi, and 

 despise the other Mahometans, altho' they are all of the same 

 Sentiments concerning the principal Articles of their Belief.* 



Before we leave the Island of Java, I will observe some 

 Particulars concerning it, slightly touch'd by the famous 

 Lodivoco Vertomanni,^ oi whom I have formerly spoken. In 

 my Opinion, exact and faithful Travellers ought not only to 



been introduced previously. The tomb of this Cheik at Cheribon, with 

 the mosque belonging to it, are magnificent monuments, to which 

 pilgrimages have been performed during four centuries. (Cf. Stavorimis, 

 vol. iii, p. 872.) 



1 '' Converties," i e., female converts. 



'^ " Convertis," i.e., male converts. 



3 " Les filles Chretienues." 



■* In orig. : " Chose dont personne ne se doit pas plus etonner que de 

 voir le Christianisme divise comme il I'estjbieu qu'il soit tres-vrai que tons 

 convienneut aussi de I'Essentie], ou des Points Fondamtntaux, comme 

 on parle. De sorte que tous feroient une meme profession publique, 

 si la pedanterie, & le prejuge n'en empechoient pas : & si, au lieu de 

 tordre I'Ecriture, & de broder, comme on fait, I'ancien Symbole, en 

 I'etcndant mcme a droit & a giuche comme a I'iufini ; on s'en tenoit, 

 sagement & humblement, aux purs & simples termes de la Revelation 

 propremeut dite, dans toutes les choses, que Ton reconnoit nnanime- 

 ment etre mysterieuses, comme dans les autres." The whole of this 

 paragraph is omitted by the translator. 



^ In orig. : " Louis Vertomanni.'' (Cf. Travels of TAulovico di Vur- 

 themci, Hakluyt edit., 186-1.) 



