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all rapacious beasts, except a few tigers which still prowl about the brushwood on 

 the mountain slopes. 



The Balinese, akin to the Javanese, are somewhat taller and more robust ; 

 being also less inured to serfdom and freer from the direct control of their Dutch 

 masters, they have a more resolute attitude and prouder glance. On the uplands 

 goitre is very common, in some districts more than half of the population being 

 afflicted by this affection, which, however, according to Jacobs, is here never 

 accompanied by cretinism, as in the Alps and Pyrenees. 



Two quite distinct dialects are current, the " low " or primitive Balinese, 

 differing greatly from Javanese and showing more affinity with the idioms of the 



Fig. 82.— Bali. 

 Scale 1 : 1,500,000. 



WA-'zo' 



Last or breenwich 



II5°2C 



Depths. 



to 100 

 Fathoms. 



100 to 500 

 Fathoms. 



Fathoms and 

 upwards. 



. 36 Miles 



eastern islands, and the " high " Balinese, which differs from the " high " 

 Javanese mainly in the large number of words it has borrowed from the Kavi, or 

 sacred language, still spoken by the priests and men of letters. As in Java, the 

 servile classes are obliged to use the high language in addressing their superiors, 

 who reply in the low language. 



Hindu culture appears to have penetrated far more deeply amongst the 

 Balinese than amongst the Javanese. The persistence of the Hindu religion m 

 the smaller island may be due partly to the immigration of refugees from the 

 Mojo-Pahit empire in the iifteenth century, and partly to the arrival of settlers 

 direct from the Coromandel coast. Officially, the whole population is still divided, 



