'IN 'THE ISLAND OF BALI; . tBB^ 



when European influence has beea eftabiifhed over the very people 

 poffeiTed of this valuable knowledge, for more than two centuries. 



I MAY begin by obferving, that the precept Q^the Hindu religion^. 

 which interdids the natives of //laf/^? from quitting their native couii" 

 try, and atrempting voyages by fea, is no better obferved than the law 

 of CMna, which prohibits emigration. In the very country whofe his- 

 tory w:e are now confidering we fee both every day violated. Hindus; 

 f^-om the Coromandd coaft (always the fource of emigration to thefe 

 iflands) come every year to feek their fortune xxx ihe Ma/ay countries ;^ 

 and I have feen a colony of thefe fettled. at Malacca, who have for gene- 

 rations preferved-the features, the language and religion, of their ancef- 

 tors. This is enough to- fet at refi the queflioa oi the pra6licability of' 

 Hind'w. emigration, . 



Kling or K-^/Z/z^^is univerfa'ly ronfidered by the oriental iflanders 

 as the country from which the civiili^y, laws and religion of India were^ 

 introduced among them ; and J^zyj as the country which fivll acquired 

 the arts of /WzX and from which they w. re diffeminated among the 

 lurrpunding tribes.* The natural advantages of J/zu^j would fee m to 

 have determined the Indian adventurers to this preference. The nar- 

 row fhape renders the whole of it, unlike the other great iflands> 

 eafily acceffible : but above all, its preeminent fertility appears to- 

 have fixed their choice. In proof of this latter conje61ure I would 

 obferve that the wellern portion of the ifland, though lying nearelt 

 the route from India, being in point of fertility far beneath the eaflern 

 and central parts, feems to have been entirely negleded hy the 

 Indian coXomih. There, there is hardly a veftige of ^/W////?72, neither 

 temple nor infcripticn ; and the language of the Sundus does not like 



■"' I hs (pinion is preJiLleii wiih inui.h f.gaci y by a writer in {\iZ Edinburgh Rsvic.v, vol. XV1> 



