IN THE ISLAND OF BALI; 



l5€ep fuch a performance in my pofleffion ; and trull therefore he 

 not be difpleafed that I return it,'* 



A FEW years ago a prince of the X^r^w^-^^/^w family,* who are fo-' 

 Vereigns of Lombok, having viiited the neighbouring ifland of Sumbawag 

 the principal population of which is Makomedan ; was circumvented by 

 ihe art of fome M'akomeian prieils^ and'became a convert to their reli- 

 gion. Ketut Karang Assam, his fove reign and relative, highly in- 

 cenfed at his apollacy, immediately withdrew from Him his fupportg. 

 and even forbid'him his country. The unfortunate prince la cdiife- 

 quence wandered about for many years a wretched outcaft ; and at 

 laff perlflied by (hipwreck on the coaft of Ceylon^ on his return frons 

 a pilgrimage to Mecca. The Makomedans look upon him as a martyr^ 

 and bis flory is a fubjeCt of frequent converfatioa- with thema 



The B^/w^ however carry their jealoufy no farther than feems- 

 reafonably neceffary to their own fecurity, againft the attempts of a relE« 

 gion decidedly hoftile to their own. Both the Mdhomeians and Chi" 

 nefe enjoy the moflundiflurbed exercife of their refpedive- worfeipsy 

 and the fame indulgence would be extended no doubt to any other 

 peaceable fefl;. The Makomedans, though ejc eluded from fettling in the 

 interior, or exercihng any office diredly Gonne6led with the details of 

 domeftic policy, are admitted to employments of tru(l and emolumeat 

 about the perfons of the princes. The confidential minifter of the Ra-« 

 ja of Blelling, Tfound was of that perfuaiion. Some of the Mahome' 

 dans thjijifeives gave me to underfland, that the protedion of fome of 

 the r.ative princes was carried to-a ftiU greater length, fome going fo far 

 as to infill with their Mahomedan fubjetls upon a more pun<5tual per^ 

 formance of the duties of their religion, than was fuited to the lukewarm 

 devotion of many of them. • 



* The piin es of 2 1 . f.i i>i Vi h'lt ney alone, of the fovcreigas of Su/Zaad Zffw^i/t, a.K Qi \.hi Hfijty a qs 

 TO^isaiihtile clals j Uie icfi uniJoiinl)' of tue Satrijm tiibci , 



