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The Rajas still assert their right to the throne of Karang Assam 
by adding its name to their royal title. The higher officers of state 
are called Gitsti. The most numerous grade of officers are the 
Pdmbakals (heads of villages) who rank according to the number of 
persons under their jurisdiction, thus there are pambakals of 1,000, 
of 500 &c., # The high court is composed of 12 Brahmans. Any 
person who has a complaint goes to whatever advocate he chooses, 
who reduces it to writing. The defendant puts in his defence in the 
same mode. The evidence of the witnesses is also written.* The 
whole case being thus stated, the court meets and discusses it. Their 
opinion is then recorded and carried up to the Raja, If he approves 
of it, it becomes the judgment. 
The country behind Mataram is a plain of very rich soil laid out 
in paddy fields which are irrigated by water conducted from deep*and 
large lakes in the mountains. The produce is abundant. Rice is 
measured by the kuda (i. e. horse) or horseload of 3 piculs. The 
R4ja receives 150 out of every 800 ikats or sheaves of paddy. Eve¬ 
ry householder or head of a family pays annually a tax of 2 dollars. 
Land is measured by the tunnah (hot tanah as it has been written) 
which Nakhoda Muda says is a definite measure, and not a term to 
express land, greater or smaller according to its fertility, yielding a 
certain quantity of produce,—a definition which I have seen some¬ 
where. 
Widows frequently burn themselves on the funeral pires of their 
husbands, but no conpulsion whatever is used towards them. 
In Sassak, as in Celebes, very few dollars are in use, the current 
coin being small copper pieces, so that to make a payment of no. 
at war with that of Bailing, the latter gained the mastery ; hut the Raja 
having afterwards been deserted by his subjects and delivered into the 
hands of the Raja of Karrang Assam, the latter, after putting him to death, 
was emboldened to attempt the invasion of B’liling in order to procure hu¬ 
man bones to build a temple in fulfilment of a vow. This led to his being 
abandoned by the great body of his subjects, and his subsequent ferocity in 
offering up a human sacrifice to propitiate the gods having excited their 
horror and detestation, he fled with his followers to Sassak and founded the 
Hindu dynasty of that island. 
* According to Mr. Zolliuger the pleadings are all written impromtu at 
the heaving (or rather reading) of the cause, not a word being spoken by 
either parly from first to last. Tijd, voor JV eerland Indie. 
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