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ameliorate their condition. By ^ more porl'ect know- 

 ledge of their own institutions, all ranks appeared to 

 concur in supporting what they found attended by no 

 deviation from good faith, and tending to conciliate 

 their feelings and prejudices. 



To conclude, what is intended is a general view of 

 the results of these inquiri(;s : until the arrangement of 

 the materials permits of a more detailed report being 

 made up, the following may be considered an abstract of 

 a collection of materials formed for illustrating the his- 

 tory, antiquities, and institutions of Java. 



MANUSCRIPTS. 



One hundred and seventy-one* sections rather than 

 volumes of paper MSS. written in the characters of Java 

 and of the Malay ; but all in the Javanese language. 

 Catalogues of them are made out, but difficulties occur 

 in getting them translated, which can only be removed 

 by the interposition of government. Most of them are 

 on paper : some were saved from the wreck of the Sul- 

 tan's library at the storm of the Craten of Jokjakarta, 

 by permission of the prize agents and the concurrence, 

 indeed, of all the military present. Others were pur- 

 chased and collected on the tour through that island : 

 some were presented by Dutch colonists and by regents, 

 and others are transcripts by Javanese writers employ- 

 ed by Colonel Mackenzie to copy them from the origi- 

 nals, in the hands of regents, and with their permission. 

 Several of these are historical. A few of the smaller 

 and more curious tracts have been translated into the 

 European languages during his stay in Java. A consi- 



* Several of these here enumerated are in paper sections, 

 quarto, and octavo, and Colonel Mackenzie has got them bound 

 up at Calcutta into portable volumes for their better preservation; 

 probably the whole may amount to forty volumes. 



