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found it necessary to get a pass from the Resident, 

 and to engage that I would take it off again when 

 I left. In this case, as in every other, we expe- 

 rienced the greatest courtesy and civility, not only 

 from the Resident, but from all the officers of the 

 Government. 



I was never weary of wandering about the town, 

 and watching the various population, reckoned at 

 60,000, and their manners and customs. The lower 

 order of Javanese are a stout broad race of people, 

 seldom above the middle height. The men, when 

 employed in labour, have frequently nothing but a 

 tight cloth round the loins, but at other times wear 

 the sarong, which is a long piece of coloured cotton 

 that wraps round the waist and hangs down to the 

 knee ; to this they sometimes added a jacket, either 

 of cloth or cotton. The women generally wear 

 clothes of a dark blue colour, more or less resembling 

 a gown and petticoat, but often have the neck and 

 shoulders naked, and the sarong or gown wrapped 

 tight under the arm-pits and across the bosom. 

 Both sexes wear their hair long, and turn it up 

 with a large comb, so that at first we were often 

 puzzled to know the men from the women at a little 

 distance. Men, women, and children, may be seen 

 all day long dabbling in the river, the children 

 quite naked, and young boys are often seen walk- 

 ing about the town in a perfect state of nudity. 

 The women seldom wear anything on the head ; but 

 the men have often a conical hat, of a kind of wicker- 



