The Javanese are dull and stupid by nature, ibinkiQg that 

 the Hollandera reverence them, and tliercfore take the trouble 

 to GoUecl their revenues j ihey imagine alao that the Hollanders 

 fespect ihein, ?nd have therefore built them a fort, and i>er- 

 eonally act as their guards of honour., Thcae Javanese are 

 spread abroad in all pans, from Batavia eastward to Clieribon 

 Chaifi^e-butr), Pacftlongan (J^ W l^ok-kn. 

 Idng), Samara»g( — Sam.pa-Iaog), LaaBcm 



La-Boni), Grisaee (J§ f] ^ Keet-lek-sek), Sourabaya (ffl 

 M H Sob-l^-ba), Batarabaeigan (^^fe Gvva-lam-ong)? 

 and westward to Johore ^ Jeo-hwut), Palembang 

 ^ Kob^kang), Champia (f^ Cheem-pe), Lampong 

 ^ Lam-p6ng), *fcc. scorea of places, are full cf this iiort 

 of people, who do not fall short of milliona. The Hollandera 

 cannot muster one for their thousand, and iheee very much 

 dispersed : but the Hollaod^rs are courageous and achemiug, 

 wliereby they form plaiia for entrapping the people, and then 

 overawe them by majesty and allure them by gain, till they 

 have BUfficiently subdued their minda, without their daring to 

 rtfuae compliance, or withhold veneration. Rightly therefore 

 did the ancients eBteem wisdom above foroe, 



SOIL AND MAHNSIAS OP JAVA. 



Batavia ^I^S Kat-ia-pa) ts the country of the Java^ 

 nese; the Hol.uudera who live along the sca-coaat^ form not 

 one tenth of tlie population. The Javanese are hundreds of 

 times more numerous than the DuLch ; the manners of ilie 

 natives are honest and eimptc ; bui they are dull and stupid, 

 and by nature pliant and fearful, being very much afraid of 

 Eyro[>eans, and making a salaam at the very hearing of their 

 names. The disiinction between master and servant ia 

 very strictly marked j whenever they meet a superior they 

 bend the knee, and clajp their hands together, which is 

 called obeisance, or sumbah E cheera-pa). They 



dwell aiiiong tlie hilla and dales, cultivating their fields ; 

 aad reaping only one harvest in the year. In tbe epriiig- 



