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Their measures of capacity are as follovvs: a joint of a bamboo is cut 

 off and made into a measure, which is callecl kulak and is equal to L.8 

 sMng or pint, official measure. Their tou or peck is called nai-li and is 

 equal to 1.44 tou, official measure (*). 



On every fifteenth and sixteenth day of the nionth, when the moon 

 is full and the night is clear, the native women form themselves into 

 troops of 20 or 30, one woman being the head of them all, and so they go 

 arm in arm to walk in the moonshine; the headwoman sings one line 

 of a native song and the others afterwards fall in together; they go to the 

 houses of their relations and of rich and high people , where they are rewarded 

 with copper cash and such things. This is called //making music in the 

 moonshine". 



There is a sort of men who paint on paper men, birds, aninials 

 insects and so on ; the paper is like a scroll and is fixed between two wooden 

 rollers three feet high; at one side these rollers are level with the paper, 

 whilst they protrude at the other side. The man squats down on the grouncl 

 and places the picture before him, unrolling one part after the other and 

 turning it towards the spectators, whilst in the native language and in a 

 loud voice he gives an explanation of every part; the spectators sit around 

 him and listen, laughing or crying according to what he tells them. 



The people of this country are fond of Chinese porcelain with green 

 flowers , musk , flowered and plain linen or silk , glassbeads , etc. ; they 

 buy these articles with copper cash. 



The king continually sends chiefs and ships to China, for the purpose 

 of bringing as tribute products of the country. 



The history of the Ming dyiiasty has brought us clown to the time of the 

 Europeans , where our task is at an end. We will only adel a few notices about the 

 chief trading-ports of Java , taken from the Tung Hsi Yang K'au , Researches on the 

 Eastern and Western Ocean, which work, though published as late as 1618, contains 

 much information anterior to that period and which may well find a place here. 



O i$i 3fflJ ku-lah and ><£ ^ nai-lij the former name is in nse still now, hut we 

 are unable to explain the latter. Using the same source for our calculations, we ünd that a kulak is 

 about equal to 1.86 litres and the nai-li to 14.91 Utres. 



