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gan ** Ardjasari, whom you know, armed with his heavy Forsyth 

 gun, called by the natives 'si mariam' (the cannon); following him 

 the ' djoeragan gamboeng ' with a clean-shooting central-fire 

 smooth-bore hunting-piece, then several mandoers,^ Setra, Alsah, 

 Alimon, Hassim, &c, with less choice firearms, among which are 

 seen some with the barrel bound to the butt and stock with rattan; 

 lastly, Aspan our cowkeeper, armed with a lance. The horses 

 of the two first-named were led by hand in the rear by a pair of 

 stable-boys. 



" The 'file' now appears to become aware of the murder of the 

 buffalo ; it mounts and descends, seeks its way through the belts, 

 and at length reaches the place where the murdered karbouw 

 lies. The brothers and friends of the slain go respectfully to 

 one side. 



". From another direction other men appear ; they are descend- 

 ants of the followers of Confucius, Thio Ten Djoelong and his 

 son, both with guns, besides the owner of the massacred beast 

 with a number of the inhabitants of the babakan \ Tji-Enggang 

 bearing no other weapons but the inseparable gollok. 



" All the men examine the dead buffalo earnestly and care- 

 fully, and find to their satisfaction that the tiger, in spite of the 

 rainy weather, has eaten greedily of his prey, which, by order, 

 of djoeragan Ardjasari, had the previous evening been well spiced, 

 not with moutarde de maille, or with Worcester sauce, but with 

 (you know) the fearful wall Jcambing. After some consultation, 

 a commencement was made with the difficult, to us at first appar- 

 ently almost hopeless, task of tracking the murderer on this 



* " Juragan. — A headman or leader in any way. A petty district Chief, the 

 Chief native or Headman on the private estates, who has charge of the police. 

 A headman in a boat. Compounded of Juru, an overseer, one who presides 

 over or acts in any department of business, and Ageng, Chief, though in the 

 compound word the final g is hardly ever heard." — RiGG's 8. D. 



f " Manclor. — A native headman, a village chief. A foreman over work 

 It is the Portuguese Mandhore, to command." — RiGG's 8. D. 



% •' Babakan. — A sub -village ; a village whose inhabitants have orig'inally 

 come off as a colony from some other village, as it were peeled off, as we might 

 say swarmed when speaking of bees." — RiGG's 8, D. 



