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took Hie Jiexl day our way lo Paiitoy in order 

 lo sf?e !iim. Wo arrived a I Fanloy at one 

 o'clock in tlie aiternoon, and at once we 

 found ourselves surrounded by a number of 

 kings, queens, princes, princesses, minis^ 

 ters of state, and officials o£ every rank, 

 more tlian one hundred liadjis and Moham- 

 niedan priests, several hundred Malays of 

 every kind, and a similar nunjber of Chinese 

 workers in the tin mines. The Jakuns them- 

 selves had not been forgotten upon such 

 an occasion : doubtless to prevent their j-e- 

 sentraent which could be followed by the 

 most fatal consequences to the fate of the 

 new spouses, and possibly also in order to 

 render the feast more solemn , they had 

 been invited; nearly one hundred Jakuns 

 were already come, and a greater number 

 yet expected. We looked about us to find 

 out in the middle of such a tumult some 

 place where we could pnl up and plac(; our 

 things in security. Many houses had been 



