RESIDENCY OF PASSAROUAN. 9 



amount of produce — such as coffee, sugar, tobacco, 

 rice, &c.— raised in his district ; and as Passarouan 

 is very fertile, the Resident derives 50,000 rupees, 

 about 3,400/. per annum from this source. This 

 residency is therefore an object of envy and ambi- 

 tion, and of no little intrigue in consequence. Now 

 the present Resident must either directly break the 

 law in facilitating our passage through his district, 

 or he must refuse when his neighbours have com- 

 plied, and for doing something like this, in the case 

 of the captain of a French man-of-war, he got a re- 

 primand from his government last year. In either 

 case he feared advantage would be taken in some 

 way to dispossess him of his post. We were a good 

 deal surprised at this little piece of secret history, 

 and thought the best way would be to cut the 

 Gordian knot at once, by pushing on into the next 

 residency, and leaving the authorities to settle our 

 passes as they pleased. 



Nod. 10. — We set off this morning at six o'clock, 

 in an open carriage, through a country similar to 

 that we had traversed yesterday, but still more rich 

 and highly cultivated, while, through the groves of 

 cocoa-nuts and areca-palms and other trees that 

 bordered the road, we got glimpses of a fine range 

 of mountains on our right, that added interest and 

 variety to the scenery. We reached the first wissel- 

 post in an hour, a little beyond which we turned off 

 to the right up a cross road to visit a famous spring, 

 called the " Blue water." This cross road led us 



