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SULTAN OF BANTAM. 
music played. The little patients evinced no signs of pain, and 
immediately after their respective operations were conveyed to their 
separate plantain-leaves, which were to be renewed as often as 
coolness and cleanliness required. The parents of the children con- 
sidered the presence of a stranger on this occasion as a propitious 
omen. 
Leaving this place, I paid a visit to the Sultan of Bantam, to whom, 
being ill, I wished to tender my medical assistance. On my way I 
passed the ruins of the palace of his predecessors, lying in shape- 
less confusion, and possessing no other interest than arose from the 
beautiful ferns * * that every where covered them. The present resi- 
dence of the Sultan is an old Dutch house on the banks of a canal 
which nearly encompasses it. In front is a court-yard, containing 
at the time of my visit several old-fashioned European carriages ; cages 
with different birds and animals placed against its walls ; and vases 
of water filled with fish standing without order in different parts 
of its area. I was received at the door of the house by the Regent 
of Bantam, and conducted by him into a long room hung round with 
the arms of the Sultan : spears, swords, and daggers, glittering with 
diamonds and gold, hung against bare and mouldering walls, and 
contrasted with a few mutilated chairs of European manufacture. 
A groan directed me to the dying Sultan, who lay stretched on a 
small pallet at one end of the room, supported in the arms of an 
interesting looking woman, and attended by two of his male relatives. 
Although the last struggles of life agitated his frame, he had sufficient 
strength to grasp my hand, and by a motion of his head to decline my 
assistance : it would have been unavailing, as he died a few hours after 
I left him. 
creta notatur. Arundo extrahitur, cujus locum supplet unus e ramis forcipis e ligfto (cui 
nomen Bamboo) constructs. Ejus ramus usque ad notam supradictam pervemt; hoc 
instrumento praeputium a glande deducitur quo alia ex forcipe includi possit. Scilicet haec 
forceps praeputii partem comprimit, ut in hoc situ, facile cultro abradatur. Sanguinis 
effusio a pulvere quodam albo supprimitur. 
* Of these ferns I dare only mention two, the Pteris piloseloides and Acrostichum aureum. 
