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and Listlessly perfume the air, tliey know not why, with the 

 odours of their incense. 



Not far distant from the Karang dwellings lies the sacred 

 village of Tjiheo, inhabited by the Badui, containing never 

 md^e nor fewer than forty souk. If thpir ininiber be increased 

 by birth the overplus must go out and reside in one or other 

 of three neighbouring' villages ; if tlieir number decrease the 

 deficit must be made up from among the Outsiilers, as they call 

 these extraneous villagers. No foot but one of their own — not 

 even of the highest European oflScial— may cross the sacred 

 boundary, which at some distance hedges the Sixuctity of their 

 abodes. Like the Eodiyas of Ceylon, they eat caiTion and the 

 flesh of animals oflensive to their neighlxjurs ; fli'sh of buffalo 

 they may eat, but they may not kill the animal themselves, 

 and of fowl also if the life have not been taken by the letting 

 of its blood, but by a stroke on the head. They wear only a 

 short loiji-cloth, whose colour must never be other than white 

 striped with black,* In speaking to any one not of their 

 omi stock, of however high a rank he be, tiioy nse the 

 pronouns by which a superior flistiuctly indicates that he is 

 addressing his inferior. At various perio<l3 of the y^ar they 

 also pay mysterious and religious rites to nidc venerated 

 blocks of stone, arranged in terraces near their village. The 

 Kalangs are probably un offshoot of the same stock as the 

 Badui, though they are not reckoned among those outsiders 

 who may be received to make up a deficiency in the sacred 

 Forty of Tjib<^o» nor do they worship at their shrines. On the 

 high Tengger Slountains, in the et^st of Java, a colony with 

 rites and customs similar to those of the Badui exists in all 

 the isolation and opprobrium that a schismatic religion can call 

 out. 



With tlie exception of the Karangs and the Badui, the 

 entire population of Bantam profess the- Mahomedau religion, 

 which however seems to be nierely a lusty and fanatical graft 

 on the pagan superstitions of the ancient times. 



* " A mas?nificcnit rolie hiivitig huGu given lo Gotiim.i, hia attendant 

 Anani^a, ia order to destroy ita intrmsic value, cnt it into thirty pieces and 

 sewed them (ogether in four divifiiont!, m ttiat tiie rohe ressernblcd the patches 

 of a rice-field, divided hy eml-nuikmentfl, and in conforraity wilh thiHprwctlent 

 the robe of every priest w;is simihirly dissected and reuniletl." — Ilcjiry's 

 * Eastern Munaehistu,' chap. xii. p. 111. Can the striped gannenis ol the 

 Kalangs and Badui have any reference to (he above tradition ? 



