ON THE ISLAND OF BALL |3I 



from the ground ; on which the Brakmans ranged theiiirei^cs= In the 

 audierxe chamber of every Raja I was given to underlland fchat there 

 W^as a fimiiar idrudiiire. The perfon of a Brahman is held inviolable ; 

 and hardly any circumftance of aggreffion on his part will warrant ta- 

 king his life. 



The common claffes cut the hair fhort in the fame way that the Sia." 

 'mefe do. The Brakmans alone wear it long;, tying it 3.sthQ Hindus o^ 

 weiiern'Iiidm do^in a knot behind the head. From this circumftance 

 it was n® difficialt matter to diflinguifh them. In a faperior regularity 

 •of features, and the abfence of the flat and often unmeanmg haes of tha 

 Ma/ay vifage, I imagined, with others of my countrymen, that their 

 Jndia7i origin, could eafily be traced. This will be thought the lefs 

 improbable when it is recoUefled that the prefent generation is but the 

 tenth removed from the fir(l flock that fettled on the iiland. The fupe- 

 rior claffes may take concubines from the inferior : but the oppofite 

 practice is flri6ty interdifcled. The oSspring of .fuch unions, as in con- 

 tinental /w^w, forms a variety of new calls« A legal marriage, how- 

 ever, can be cjntra6led only between perfons of equal rank, fo that the 

 four great claffes are in this manner preferved diftind. 



Among the Hindus of Ba/i as well as in iTidia, there exifls a clafs of 

 'outcafts called as -there Ch%ii'ddLr. Thefe are heldimpure^ and being ex- 

 cluded from affociating with their fellow fubjefts, occupy the outfkirts 

 <j£ the villagfe. Potters, dyers^ dealers in leather, diilillers, and retailers of 

 ardent fpirits, are of this ordero 



HiTHBRTO I have defcribed practices and inflltutions nearly parallel 

 with thofe of India ; but there are others, to judge from which, the na- 

 tives of Bali would hardly deferve the name of Hindus, in our appreciati- 

 on of thecuftoms and l.abits, which ought to be afcribed to the lattere 



