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cultivation. Rice is imparted from different 

 places, f^ackly not forming an article of cultivati- 

 oUf The price which it obtains in the market 

 is generally as foilows ; 



The first sort Javan Rice, 300 guilders per 



Koyang of 40 piculs. 



Second sort of Do. 200 do. per. do. 



Siam Rice, 150 do. per. do. 



The first sort Javan Tobacco fetches 87^5 guil- 

 ders per Kor^e of 40 baskets. 



Second sort do. do. 800 per do. 



Oil is sold for 30 guilders per picul, and salt 

 at 50 guilders per Koyang. The drinking water 

 frora the various springs is both excellent and 

 plentiful. 



Although the articles of life are thus scarce 

 and dear, there are no public beggars infesting 

 the streets. There are no alms-houses, or recep- 

 tacles for the indigent poor, but each class of in- 

 habitants provides for such of its countrymen 

 as are unable to obtain their ov^^n livelihood. 

 Amongst the Chinese this is managed by means 

 of a monthly collection made in money and rice. 



The principal crimes commilted at Rhio are 

 thefts and robberies, but they would not appear 

 to be very numerous, as in 1825 there were thir- 

 ty one, and in 1826 forty, convicts, twenty three 

 of whom had been condemned by the Residency 

 Court, aiid the remaining twenty seven had been 

 transported thither from Batavia. The powers 

 of the Residency Court are extremely circum- 

 scribed, being limited to a hundred stripes of the 

 rattan, or three months working in irons : all of- 

 fenders, whose crimes are deserving of severer pu- 



