146 RECEIVED BY THE SULTAN. 



pandopo, where stood the Sultan,* ready to receive 



us. He was of the middle height, with a 



slender figure, a good humoured, thin, shrivelled 



countenance, and with very easy and polished 



manners. He was dressed in a close hlack silk 



jacket or short frock, a dark sarong, a white shirt 



with diamond studs, and a dark handkerchief 



wrapped close round his head. He wore on his 



breast a diamond star, the order of the Netherlands 



Lion, of which he is a Knight, and on his hand he 



had a large diamond ring, said to be worth 30,000 



rupees. He had also, but did not wear, a black 



three-cornered cocked hat, with a fringe round the 



edge, and a handsome diamond aigrette in front, 



which he afterwards told us, with some exultation, 



had been presented to him by the English Governor, 



Sir S. Raffles. When we had all alighted, and 



been introduced to the Sultan, and one or two 



European military officers, who seemed to be in 



attendance on him, he led the way through the 



pandopo, which was crowded with a collection of 



European carriages, of which he is a great fancier, 



and then passing through another gate, he conducted 



us to the state apartments. As soon as we entered 



this enclosure, two bands, one native the other 



European, saluted us with a simultaneous clangour 



* I have just seen in the newspapers mention of the death of 

 this native chief, but no account of his successor, and it is pro- 

 bable that his dominions are either now or shortly will be, 

 formally absorbed into those of the Dutch. (April, 1847.) 



