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rake together as much hay as three men can mow, or to weave three 
yards ofwadmala day. A man’s wages are four dollars and twelve yards 
of wadmal, those of a woman two dollars and five yards of wadmal. When 
men are sent a fishing out of the country, there is allowed to each 
man, by law, from the *25thof Sept, to the 14th of May, six pounds of 
butter, and eighteen pounds of dried fish, every week. When they 
are at home, and can get butter, every man receives only five pounds 
of dried fish^ and three-quarters of a pound of butter a week. 
Manners and Customs of the Balinese. 
The Balinese are the natives of the island of Bali, sometimes called 
Little Java. In disposition the Balinese are represented as mild and 
inoffensive, and neither prone to anger nor revenge. They readily 
associate with strangers, and are altogether divested of those bigoted 
prejudices of caste, nation, and religion, with which the people of 
continental Asia are so deeply imbued. It has been remarked of the 
Balinese, that they are the only people of this archipelago who pos- 
sess either courage or tractability sufficient for receiving the regiilar 
discipline of European troops. Their use of poisoned arrows, howe- 
ver, is a relic of barbarism, which still connects them with the savages 
of the neighbouring islands, and is not easily reconciled with the 
other parts of their character, or the progress they have made in the 
path of civilization. Prisoners of war are either associated with the 
conquerors, or sold for slaves, but never put to death. 
The diet of the people is not confined to vegetables, as animal 
food seems to be very common. This consists principally of the 
flesh of hogs and buffaloes ; and ships touching at Bali are readily 
supplied with this sort of provisions, as hogs are generally very 
numerous. Nor is the use of spirituous liquors or opium unknown, 
both of which have been introduced by Europeans. Their houses 
are built upon the ground, as in Java, and not raised upon posts like 
those of the Malays, and other inhabitants on the borders of rivers 
and marshy sea coasts. This is an evidence of the dryness and 
salubrity of the climate. 
The Balimese are generally clothed in cotton of their own manu- 
facture, which is of a better fabric than those of the Javanese, 
though they is not so w'^ell clad as the inhabitants of the larger 
islands. The females, indeed, go nearly naked till they are married, 
when the bridegroom laps a selendang or cloth round the bosom of 
the bride. They also manufacture cotton cloths for exportation, which 
may be considered as a decisive proof of the advanced state of 
society. 
The women, as among the Javanese, are the sole manufacturers. 
The art of printing their cottons does not appear to be known, as they 
are either white, or striped with other colours in the loom. They also 
manufacture their own weapons, even including fire-arms ; and 
though the locks of these are clumsy, much taste is displayed in 
inlaying the barrels. The people of this archipelago are placed 
under circumstances so similar, that where their efforts are not 
counteracted by differing causes, they must tend to produce a strik- 
