THE EASTER X AUCHIPEI.AGO. 



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■ereral ftpecits of honey -raekcrs, btdonrintf tu the Australian avifauna. 

 Similar wntrasta mv praontad hy tln< buttvruitis ami beetle* uf l/ffliWIr, ju 

 coiU|Kir>.il with the Javanese and Uulinesr insuct world. 



Tin' imlivi-H rtlLtiVnlM riiv. whii-Ji k Lii^i ly i'S ji«rtt-il r U'KLih-H iTiftizp, 

 coltuu, tiihru-i'ij, ttupir-i-u tit 1 , indigo, and eolltju. Tlmy also rear jimm-rotti 

 1hti[h uf i'iiM".. , lmlTiilui'S 11 rid hurt's, inul mvlipy tlii'triNt'tvcg with metah 

 Watk, liin-i:-xv^.ivirLtr. arid lh<> manufacture r>f b&lttboO and palm flbrfl 

 matting, ftilitically tin; Haliiieae nn> the dominant class, tlie Snsaks 

 pri-si'iuing n rum instanca id a Mn\i:immv>]nn itojiiditicui controlled hy 

 Hi in hi masters. Rut all alike- an* under thi 1 direct supervision of the 

 Dutch ; Lombok, since forming with ltali a Residency, with seat of 

 Government nt Mfftarnm, three miles from the west mast. The chii f eea- 

 port ia tin; ni-ighliouriuu; Ampftnam t which has a mixed population of 

 Sasaki*, Kali ties*, Imghis, and Malaya, Beside!* riee it eiport* corfuo, 

 cotton, hid.'s, and hon*c4 : tin- i-hiVf ii rk port.-^ ludug *<alt, areng Mi^at, arae, 

 opium, palm nil, hardware, and European good*. Tlw B&Uasw compiest 

 dales from the 11 r^t half of the ISth century t and the Krahiuaijk-al rajaa 

 v.. in absolutely independent of thu Dutch till alxmt JfllQ. 



Sumbawa.— Lying between Lombtik ami CVunodu, from which 

 it ia severed by the fifirmw straits, Alias ntitl Sapi, Sllmbuwa ia 170 

 miles long, varying greatly in breadth from live tir six to GO inilvis 

 with a total area of 5000 square miles. Its peculiarly irregular form 

 ia tine to the deep indentations on the north coast, one of which, the 

 1' iy of Ririui. jK'tJi't rates l. r t miles inluml, thus necirly severing ihe 

 inland into two parts, It is essentially volcanic, with several cones 

 over 5000 feet and culminating in Tom bom, or Tambora, 9040. 

 TombotOf tt the entrance of Doinpo Bay t wa* the scene of a tremeud- 

 OUI eruption in 18IS T when most of the land was wasted, and 12,000 

 of the inhabitant* involved in the general ruin. The climate 3h much 

 drier than that of the more western ly inland?, find few of the fetreamn 

 are perennial, hut rather resemble thu Arabian w.ulicH, rushing 

 torrents during the rainy season, waterless sandy river-beds for the 

 rest of the year. Hence, much of the land is unproductive ; but the 

 forests yield the valuable sapon tad sandalwood, besides teak, winch 

 appears here sporadically, being absent from the islands intermediate 

 ln-Lwetii S'.nu'tiaw.t and .Tuva. 



Tho rJii.'f martuimln an- swiiu', rh«nr t and a much nriwd breed of ponies, 

 ex|-MirtH>d lis Java and MauritinHr TJn- n^iiv.'.i nrenkninty Malayan Mi»]min- 

 xneaann, somewhat renemhlin^ th* Ungljin >-? i '-N-U ■«*, b«t speaking several 

 dintiiji:t liinpufipi-s, ai.'l c.i'i.ii]n iI m(<i \,,\:t jM-ity ftain'i (Suinbawa, Ikunpo, 

 Suunar, Mid Iiima), under the eoii!i-..| <>f ii ]i •.(.■!; A^i-Mut tl» i ■ I i i a . 

 BUtiottL'd nt Jiimti, on tha north-ia-t roa«t, They cultivate rice and 

 tobacco ; other articles of Hr^ort being wax, birda'-nviit^ gidJ, pearly 

 huljjhur, eapuit, and Kindftlwued, 



