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Gold and silver ornaments are much worn by the Javanese women, 
and are very complicated in their pattern. I saw the commence- 
ment of the manufacture of one of these, a silver belt for the waist. 
The workman having beaten out the silver to the requisite dimensions, 
placed it in a bed of wax ; he then, with a small hammer and chisel, 
began to trace the outline of the pattern by successive indentations ; 
and in this simple but tedious manner the work was to be finished. 
Before I left Pandigalang, my friends the mountaineers brought 
some splendid specimens of native sulphur, which they had collected 
from the bottom of the crater of Gunong Karang. With it they also 
brought me a specimen of the Goramy*, a fish found in many of the 
rivers of Java, and celebrated for its flavour. It is beautiful in its 
hues and singular in its form. The ground colour is orange, that 
of the back a dark bronze, which passes in undulating lines over its 
sides. Its form is a roundish oval, the head short, with a somewhat 
recurved snout ; but the animal is particularly distinguished by the 
prolongation of its pectoral fins into thread-like processes, several 
inches in length. The native princes of Java keep these fish alive in 
large quantities in reservoirs near their dwellings. Its general cha- 
racters are well marked in the annexed engraving. 
* Probably the TSc/iopus Goramy of Shaw, who supposes it to have been introduced 
into the rivers of Java, from China. Zoology, Vol. IV. Part II. 
