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power ihe Kap-|>iutaii in Dattiviu (P^) [}s Jivuktl, and 

 profits of ihe situation ftre iincertaia ; but tlie atitliority of the 

 Samarang Kai>pit.tan b fixed, aod iiis profits more regu- 

 lar in ttieir returns. The boiling of the sea la make sultj 

 and the ctiUivation of die fields lo produce reveiuie, are all 

 tlie perqitisites of ihe Kap^piuion. Thus it is thai a [>eTson 

 who fills this office, can ainaes stores of wealth. 



According to the cuatoni of the place, those who come ori- 

 ginally from China are preferred as aoas-in-law, while those 

 boiQ ia the country are not esteemed. In the former case, a 

 pair of wax candles may aerve for a marriage- port ion, wliicli 

 ig most delightfully cheap. The servants and slave girla, 

 though amounting io tens and hundreds, attend each m 

 some particular buaiocss, thui makiug their eervlcea regular. 

 The distinction between masters and servants ia very sir id- 

 ly observed, ao that when they wait upon iheir maatere, they 

 bend their knee ; thus putting honour upon thtlr superiors. 

 Wives are called ^^iai(^ GQay),or misireai, and the men are 

 very much afraid of them; the affairs of liie family are all 

 under their controulj and the female slaves rauat ubey their or- 

 ders. They keep every thing shut up very close, and their jea- 

 louey ia insupportable. Bui with respect to those whom they 

 favour, .hey are easy and agreeable. Men and women walk 

 about hand in hand, and sit down aliouldtr hy shouldtir, 

 while some of them proceed so far as lo go arm in arm, or to 

 take onu another round the waist ; bo liLile do they know of 

 the decencies of public morals. Female slaves carry umbrellas, 

 loscreati their nil.itre5i;e6 from the bun, or bring fans to agitate 

 the wind for them ; or they hold the epitting-diish, or carry 

 the betel-boXj and thus wait in attendance to the right and 

 left ; throughout the whole country tlie practice ia the lame, 

 hud has tiiereforc ceased to excite wonder. 



In these western regions, eatttig and sleeping are very im- 

 portant things ; let the case l^e ever so urgent, the visitor must 

 not be immedlat^jly announced, until the gentlemen Imvo 



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