ENTER LAMAJANG. 3J 



superiors is universal in Java, and is paid to their own 

 chiefs as well as to all Europeans.* Sitting down 

 on the ground is the proper posture of respect, and 

 an inferior, in moving in the presence of a superior, 

 bends his body, and crouches along till he can find 

 a place for squatting down. 



We changed horses after rather a long post, and 

 in four pauls more arrived at Lamajang, a little 

 before ten o'clock. This is a moderately sized 

 native town, standing on a plain, which, from the 

 rapidity of the brooks, is evidently still some height 

 above the sea. The town, indeed, is intersected by 

 a precipitous little ravine, about thirty feet deep, in 

 which was a rapid brook, and over which there were 

 several bridges of wood. 



We traversed one or two streets, or rather roads, 

 bounded by the fences of kampongs, and over- 

 shadowed by groves of cocoa-nuts and areca- palms, 

 and then came on to the central square. This seems 

 an universal feature of all the Javanese towns ; it 

 generally contains three or four acres of beautiful 

 turf, shaded by noble banian trees, of a species 

 called " warrlngen," which are almost held sacred 

 by the inhabitants. This square is bordered by the 



* As in Java, so in the Friendly and Society Islands, uncovering 

 the shoulders and squatting down is the highest mark of respect 

 that can be shewn. See Sir S. Raffles' s History of Java, Mari- 

 ner's Tonga Islands, Ellis's Polynesian Researches, &c. &c. 

 In Tonga, if an inferior meets a chief upon the road, he lowers 

 his burden and sits down till he has passed. 



