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Surabaya (*) and lastly at a place called Modjopait ( 2 ) , where the king 



lives. 



The residence of the king has a brick wall more than thirty feet 

 high and more than a hundred feet long, it has a donble gate and is clean 

 and well kept. The houses inside stand high from the ground and are 

 thirty to forty feet high; they have a floor of boards, covered with fine rattan- 

 mats or rnsh-mats with patterns, on which the people sit cross-legged ; for 

 the roofs they have taken boards of hard wood, which is split and nsed as 

 tiles. 



The dwellings of the people are covered with straw and in every 

 house they make a store-room of masonry, three or four feet high, for sto- 

 wing away their goods, and they alvvays sit on the top of tliis. 



The king goes bareheaded or wears a cap with golden leaves and 

 flowers; he wears no garment on the upper part of his body, but around 

 the lower part he has one or two flowered cloths (sarong), and he uses a 

 piece of flowered silk-gauze or linen to fasten these around his loins, for 

 which reason the latter is called loin-wrapper (slendang). He carries one or 

 two short daggers called jou-lak ( 3 ) and alvvays goes barefooted. He rides 

 on an elephant or sits in a cart drawn by oxen. 



The men in this country have their long hair hanging down and the 

 women wear it in a knot; they use a kind of coat, and a wrapper round 

 the lower part of the body. The men have a pu-lak stuck in their girdle , 

 every body carrying such a weapon, from the child of three years up to the 

 oldest man; these daggers have very thin stripes and whitish flowers and 

 are made of the very best steel; the handle is of gold, rhinoceroshorn or 

 ivory , cut into the shape of human or devils faces and finished very carefully . 



o m & m ** 



tvssf im, • 



(^ \m '-§ |Ó y^ • Moa-tsia-pa-i. All these names will be uoticed more fullv in 

 the course of this account. 



O Jfi w\ itïf • '^ e ^ rs ^ ^ wo characters, also written |^|j3 pa-lak, probably are 

 a transcription of the native word baclilc, a weapon between a sword and a kuife, and it seenis 

 that the Chinese have applied this name to all similar weapons, as here certainly the Javauese 



kris is mcant. The last character t'ou (head), has here the same value as in ^£j BË si one, 



*Pt* Jtl| bone, -^: Jp[ axe, g|g fl|| hoc, being used as a kind of suffix or exponent in 

 the names of hard objects and strong instruments. The Hakka-Chinese in Borneo use the word 

 pa-lak-theu still now lor a native sword and the interpretation of ISTr. IMayers, who reacis theseeond 



character n»|j t:'e, and explaius the name l>y //do not strike at the head", will have to be given up. 



