7 ml-; ]■: A s T J : j ; n ABC H I PEL AGO. 



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Many U™h mimical :iml IkL'liLhi.-t :dejs id so fcllrviw, tUld tin- nvi:ii1',T of 

 AytMtyt, or spirits, » till worshipped is liBkmbHn. Every village has its 

 patron ili-i I y r who ptvs.iilr»J at hi founts! ion, and tn whose bciicncciil or 

 inidiguiint inlluenev are nm-ribed nil it> fori iim-*. Vmlrt a hhiad-LraUtdiiiig 

 livt' stands tin.' at:nr, on wJiii-li thy w.-rshippcr lay* hid u lacing uf rlimera 

 and iiicelisi', Ht taring iiii'.ujh kilr in lm.<ki<]i Arabic tin* Miwduni fitruiulu — 

 "Tlifiv h n» gi»d kit Coil, ami Mcliiimuicd is h'%, | ur>| il u- 1 r " The national 

 pantheon has also been incjvaaed by Meh mines %s JIosph, Jesus, St, 

 JiiM'ph, ali'l Hit]n.T^ n iijLrn-Jni-i..,J through KorojNau iijlSaejicea, ul though 

 their J'luteatdut ralvin have hitherto done little to vnagptim tiwto 

 " Mohammedan and Hiinlti Nature < W BSl 3klfl P»fc'* Mora wal has been 

 shown by the Rojjjiui Catholic Church, which has a Yicar-AjwstoHii; 

 resident lu Batavia, an J subordinate to him many missionaries scattered 

 uver Java and other part* of Netherlands India, At Hutavia and .Sauiarang 

 there an.' religious tfitalilin.li men la for the t-ilueation of the young on 

 Hiri.slL.uj j»rin. .'ijjtefl. A apaik of the old Hindu religious is stilt kept 

 aSivo \<y the Jul iiin iHadui) h ill-men in the Lchah district, Itanium, mid 

 by the mare numerous Tenggcr people, who occupy the nlopcs of the 

 Trigger volcano. 



Governments— The only native princes at ill retaining ft scm~ 

 blance of regal ^tutc are the r:ijii^ uf Surukarta and Jokjokarta, who 

 nre mere, pensioners of the Dutch, with no power to levy taxes^ 

 but with altfolute juri*dietiun in purely religious matter*. For all 

 practical purposes Java and ita dependencies are now directly 

 ttd ministered by the Dutch., who have parcelled out thi* region into 

 twenty-four Uctddeneiei 1 , enumerated in the statistical tables, p. 187. 

 These Residencies, each of which \ti gowned by a European Resident, 

 assisted by a secretary and a number of sub-residents, are subdivided 

 into arrondissements, or "regencies," so called because entrusted, 

 e-jpeciully in ]...lin' ma" h v-. I., imtivt- chie-l* iiuiiu'd 11 regents. 1 ' Over 

 nil standi* the OnYornor-tlencral, who reside* at liatavin, and exercises 

 almost absolute authority over nil the Dutch possessions in the 

 Archipelago* He if CommnndcT-in*Chtef of tli<* land tad Ma foorcb*, 

 and is assisted by a Hecrctary-Uenerril and a Colonial Council of four 

 members iiniiied by the King uf H> aland. 



Trade*— Java is the centre of a lnryp and increasing local and 

 foreign trades which has l>eeii givatly facilita1<-.l \>y an excellent 

 eystcin of road*, and a network of railways w»tinecting alt Hie clii^f 

 towns alun^ the nortli coant with each other, and willL several points 

 of tlie interior. Regntar lines of steamers ulm ply between Batavia 

 and liurope, Singapore, Piidun^, and all the chief ports oT tlie 

 Archipelago. The expf>rts from Java include rice, sugar, coffee, 

 indigo, tobacco, cotton, pepper, spices, camphor, teak, sa^o, and edible 

 biruV-iusta. Throagh. lktavia are also forwariled to Europe many 



