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JOURNEY TO GUNONG KARANG. 
for sale on a small table in the centre of the shed. The areca-nut, 
betel-leaf, and a small quantity of slaked lime, form the favourite 
masticatory of the Javanese. The better class carry them constantly 
about their persons in boxes sometimes of rather elegant forms, one 
of which is figured in the annexed engraving. Some of them add 
to this appendage two small instruments*, with which they bruise 
the ingredients for mastication before they take them into their 
mouths. One of these is a small hollow cylinder, having a piston 
which works within it. Having drawn back the piston, they fill the 
cylinder with the areca-nut, betel-leaf, and lime, and bruise them 
with an instrument shaped like a chisel, by working it about in the 
* These instruments are shown by figures No. 4 and 5. 
