til eqiiaiting down nil abug tUe seA'Coaei, ihey [iavi< exacted 

 dutieij issued pa^ejiorts, guarded ingrers and egress, put down 

 robbers, and bruitghl the nalivee under their entire control. 

 The HoliandtifS t»ave long no&eg, and red hair, they are deep- 

 Bchemed and thoughtful, and lieuce they acquire such an in- 

 flueuce over iht natives. Their kingdom has been eata- 

 blialied about eighteen hundred years ; they make no use of 

 an intercalary moon ; their montha have tometimea upwards 

 of thirty days, which are made up by cutting ofTiiie excrea- 

 cenpiee and supplying the deticiencie^ of our intercaiary 

 moo Hi. The beginning of each year occurs ten days after the 

 winter solstice. The government officerB all receive orders 

 from fhdr sovereign in Europe, and the ruler of Baiavin doss 

 not presume to follow his own inr.Unations 



They have a Governor (^BE'l^u^ongJanda Lieutenant- 

 Governor ^ Je oti^) i there are JL-inbers r^f Council 

 ^Seang-paffly,) and Directors (ftfl |j| Kay-t1m6u ) with 

 Land and Water Fiscala ^ Bi3-seP?-kai), and inner 



and outer Tomonireon^ or Ma^^iet rales ^ Tam-jsan- 



kong), Factois (iff ^ Poey-tiit,) Coinmaudauti, fjj 

 ^Korij-puf-lansJ and such like tiilea ; these are divided off 

 iQ superintend dtfTttreni districts , and take precedence ^ eilher 

 higher or lower, according as their districts are great or small. 

 The chisf of the Javanese (J^ Jaoti-a ) dwells in ihe in- 

 terior, at a place culled the Dalam, (5^ 1^ Lam-Iao) or fia- 

 laceof the Sultan of Solo ; he takes the title of Susuhwnan (J^ 

 ^ Sun-Jan,) which resembleB that of Grandee (^^Stlen- 

 fe,) in the Han dynasty, or that of K'Imn (If K'6-han,) 

 in the ^ T6ng dynasty ; the other native cliiiifs, in every 

 place, all call themselves Sulian -f}* So6-tan,) and in. 

 variably acknowled^ie the Suauhunan (JKJ |f| Sun-tan) of 

 ihft palace (^ff^ Um-lae), as their lieije lord. Amongst 

 their officers, they havft Adipalis, W J^-p*t)>). 



Totnonggongs (j^ ^ ^ 



Tam-pan-kong,) and Piilisj* 

 • These are all JaTane»e titles of nobility. 



