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NOTICES OP LOMBOK. 
great amount the services of half a dozen sturdy followers are re¬ 
quired. 
Nakhoda Muda as well his deceased master, Ishmaila, did the 
King good service in a war with his brother in which he proved suc¬ 
cessful. For this reason Muda is allowed to trade exempt from all 
duties. Mr King pays the Raji about 4,000 dollars qnnually and 
possesses several duties and” monopolies. In Singapore the Nakho- 
d&, like other considerable Bugis traders, is always attended by a 
large train of Bugis followers who shew him the same respect that a 
Malay chief receives from his retainers. 
I was unable to arrive at any certain conclusions respecting the 
amount and distribution of the population, the quantity of exports, 
military strength &c., Nukhoda Muda promised to do his best to 
procure for me copies of the Agama and Digdma and other books. 
Such was the amount of our meagre information respecting Lom¬ 
bok before the late Dutch expedition to Bali. With respect to the 
latter island Mr. Freiderich’s work may be expected soon to dispel 
the obscurity that still envelopes it. In anticipation of the early 
completion of this work we do not publish the translations which we 
have made of the notices in the Tijdschrift referred to by Dr. Hoe- 
veil in his address, but if it should be postponed we shall insert 
them. In the meantime we shall give some extracts from Mr. Zol¬ 
linger's recent interesting papers on Bali and Lombok (or Sassak). 
This naturalist, who is a member of the scientific commission of Ne¬ 
therlands India, has not only distinguished himself by his botanical 
discoveries, but by an ardent and enlightened pursuit of almost every 
kind of knowledge that can be acquired while engaged in prosecuting 
his researches. He is now investigating Sumbawa, and the other is¬ 
lands of the chain that stretches east from Java. The fullness with 
which he has treated of Bill and Lombok precludes us from giving 
his papers entire in one number. We begin with his notices of the 
religion of Lombok-as it is likely to prove interesting to our readers 
from the singular modification which the Hindu practise of Suttee 
has there undergone. 
