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Win?, inftead of his target, a cock, fome tobacco, or other 
merchandife of the like kind, which he took that opportunity 
to bring down to fell, and a few or none of their cartridge 
boxes were furnifhed with either powder or ball, though a 
piece of paper was thruft into the whole to fave appearances. 
We faw a few fvvivel guns, and pateraroes at the town-houle, 
and a great gun before it ; but the fwivels and pateraros lay 
out of their carriages, and the great gun lay upon a heap of 
ftones, almoft coniumed with rail, with the touch-hole down- 
wards, poflibly to conceal its fize, which might perhaps be 
little lefs than that of the bore. 
We could not difcover that among thefe people there was 
any rank of diftinftion between the Raja and the land-owners . 
the land-owners were refpe£table in proportion to their pof- 
feflions ; the inferior ranks confift of manufacturers, labouring 
poor, and Haves. The Haves, like the peafants in fome parts 
of Europe, are connected with the eftate, and both defcend 
together : but though the laad-owner can fell his Have, he has 
no other power over his perfon, not even to correct him, with- 
out the privity and approbation of the Raja. Some have five 
hundred of thefe Haves, and fome not half a dozen : the com- 
mon price of them is a fat hog. When a great man goes out, 
he is conftantly attended bv two or more of them : one of 
them carries a fword or hanger, the hilt of which is common- 
ly of filver, and adorned with large taflels of horfe hair ; and 
another carries a bag which contains betel, areca, lime and 
tobacco. In thefe attendants confifts all their magnificence, 
for the Raja himfelf has no other mark of diftinftion. 
The chief objeCt of pride among thefe people, like that of 
a Welchman, is a long pedigree of refpe Table anceftors, and 
indeed a veneration for antiquity feems to be carried farther 
here than in any other country : even a houfe that has been 
well inhabited for many generations, becomes almoft facred, 
and few articles either of ufe or luxury bear fo high a price as 
ftones, which having been long fat upon, are become even 
and fmooth : thofe who can purchafe fuch ftones, or are pof- 
fefl'ed of them by inheritance, place them round their houfes, 
where they ferve as feats for their dependants. 
Every Raja fets up in the principal town of his province, 
or nigree, a large ftone, which ferves as a memorial of his 
reign. In the principal town of Seba, where we lay, there 
are thirteen fuch ftones, befides many fragments of others, 
which had been fet up in earlier times, and are now moulder- 
ing away : thefe monuments feem to prove that fome kind of 
civil eftablifhment here is of confiderable antiquity. The laft 
thirteen reigns in England make fomething more than 276 
years. 
Many of thefe ftones are To large, that it is difficult to con- 
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