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heat should beget ill-blood, but refer it immediately to this 
court. 
After the Radja we could hear of no ranks of people but 
landowners, respectable according to the quantity of their 
land; and slaves, the property of the former, over whom, 
however, they have no other power than that of selling 
them for what they will fetch, when convenient; no man 
being able to punish his slave without the concurrence and 
approbation of the Radja. Of these slaves some men have 
500, others only two or three; what was their price 
in general we did not learn, only heard by accident that a 
very fat hog was of the value of a slave, and often bought 
and sold at that price. When any great man stirs out he 
is constantly attended by two or more of these slaves, one 
of whom carries a sword or hanger, commonly with a silver 
hilt, and ornamented with large tassels of horse hair; the 
other carries a bag containing betel, areca, lime, tobacco, 
etc. In these attendants all their idea of show and 
grandeur seems to be centred, for we never saw the Radja 
himself with any more. _ 
The pride of descent, particularly of being sprung from a 
family which has for many generations been respected, is by 
no means unknown here; even living in a house which has 
been for generations well attended is no small honour. It is 
a consequence of this that few articles, either of use or 
luxury, bear so high a price as those stones which by having 
been very much sat upon by men have contracted a bright 
polish on their uneven surfaces; those who can purchase 
such stones, or who have them by inheritance from their 
ancestors, place them round their houses, where they serve 
as benches for their dependents, I suppose to be still more 
and more polished. 
Every Radja during his lifetime sets up in his capital 
town, or migrie, a large stone, which serves futurity as a 
testimony of his reign. In the nigrie Seba, where we lay, 
were thirteen such stones, besides many fragments, the 
seeming remains of those which had been devoured by time. 
Many of these were very large, so much so that it would be 
