SUMATRA. 
returns in the manner he came, furroundcd by a prodigious niintiber of 
lights. Od high days (ara ryah) the king goes in great ftate mounted 
on an elephant richly caparifoned, to the great mofque, preceded by 
his cclooballangi ; who are armed nearly in the European manner. 
The country under the immediate jurifdidlion of Acheen, is divided 
Into three difl:ri<5ts, named Duo pooho dm^ Duo pooko kemo, and D:w pec- 
ho anmn. Each diftri^ is governed by a Pangleenw^ and under hiitij an 
Imtnum and four Pangeechies to each mofque. The country is v^^onder- 
fully populous, but the computations with which I have been*furniihed* 
exceed fo far all probability, that I do not venture to infert them. The 
number of mofques in the three diftrids is faid to be, in the fi rfl, five 
hundred, in the fecond two hundred, and in the third four hundred j 
which alfo appears incredible, confidcring the foiall extent of territory 
that the whole includes. Could we fuppofe the account jujft, we muft 
allow them to be the moft devoted to religion of any people on the face 
of the earth. 
The nnly regular ttiT or impofition the country is fubje<S to, 
for the ufe of the crown, is a Meafure of Rice, annually, from 
each proprietor of land, which they carry In perfon to the court ; and 
this can be looked upon only as a token of homage, for they never fail 
to receive from the king, an equivalent in return, of tobacco or forae 
other article* His revenues arife folely from the import and export cuf- 
toms, which I sun informed, amount to forty catties weight (each being 
eftimated at one pound and a third*) of gold, or about two thoufand 
five hundred pounds fterling, yearly. The Telinga merchants pay very 
high duties ; in the whole not lefs than fifteen per cent. The revenues 
of the nobles, arife from taxes on the different countries under their re- 
fpe<^ive jurifdidions. At Pedeer, a meafure of rice is paid to the feudal 
lord for every meafure oipaddee fown, which is about the twentieth part 
* The weight of the cattj differ* cxtrtmely_ln fome pktcs, and I btkive at M&t&cca^ it i« 
r<ic1coiiGd at 30 02, 1 7dwE, iigri troy. 
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