TOWN OF PASSAROUAN. 7 



coming forty miles, including stoppages. Passa- 

 rouan was a much larger place than we at all ex- 

 pected, having several wide streets, which, besides 

 the native kampongs, were lined in the centre of the 

 town with Chinese houses in court-yards, large mer- 

 chants' stores, and European residences, having 

 lawns and carriage drives. The native Javanese 

 all reside in separate kampongs, or quarters, each of 

 which is surrounded by a fence, either of bamboo 

 paling or a wall : to these there is often not more 

 than one entrance gate. In these kampongs their 

 bamboo houses seem to be scattered indiscriminately 

 under the shade of bananas, cocoa-nuts, and other 

 fruit-trees, and of bamboos and plants useful in their 

 buildings. There is a native headman in each 

 kampong, who is responsible to the next higher 

 native authority for the good behaviour of its inha- 

 bitants. The Javanese seldom change their kam- 

 pong, although not absolutely tied to it by any legal 

 regulation. 



We drove to Mr. M'Clelland's to breakfast, after 

 which we went out to a small place called Sama- 

 rangan, where this gentleman had an iron foundry. 

 Here we found many native workmen forging or 

 casting iron machinery, principally for the sugar- 

 mills. They make very good blacksmiths, which is 

 esteemed a very honourable profession among them.* 



In the evening we called upon the Secretary of 



* In the Friendly Islands that of a carpenter is esteemed the 

 most honourable employment of all mechanical arts. 



