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Ín a square wooden sheath or rather box, sus- 
pended by a girth at the lower part of their 
backs, which produces a rattling noise in walk- 
ing and moving; on the sculpture of this box 
they display the utmost of their skill; in seve- 
ral instances the fragments of a broken looking 
glass were employed to increase irs beauty. 
After my return to Karang-Bollong I visited 
several of the chief villages of this neighbour- 
hood; they are in general small and dispersed 
through the Hills: they have no (or very con- 
fined) Rice-gronds, but are plentifully supplied 
with Cacoa-nut and other Fruit trees. The 
common domestic s which serve for the 
food of the natives, ts, Fowls, Ducks &c. 
are very cheap, and rice is abundantly supplied 
by the neighbouring districts of Daggalen. The 
name of Karang.Bollong is derived from an 
excavation or vault in the extremity of the hill, 
near the discharge ofthe river Chichinggoleng 5 
this is mentioned in the subsequent sections. 
Abouth two miles Westward of the chief village, 
the ridges are intersected, at the ocean, by 2 
considerable bay, denominated the Bay of 
Passir, near which Mollo and various other 
small villages are pleasantly situated. 
Agust 14.—l continued my route directly 
north along the ridges which constitute this pe- 
ninsula5 I halted at Rangka, a small district 
belonging to B: n, completely level and co- 
vered with villages and rice-gronds. ~ 
Agust 15.—I made a diversion from the com- 
mon road, and visited the principal village of 
the district of Roma, called Jari-nogoro: the 
tract is level and in a high state of culture, but 
not far coche northward the summits of the cen-- 
