OF THE RELIGION OF SASSAK, 
set down. I shall therefore only speak of some matters which re¬ 
late in a peculiar manner to the institutions of the Balinese on Lom¬ 
bok. 
Four castes are known on Lombok, Brahmans, Shatrias, Wasi- 
yas and Sudras. The first are divided Into Idas or priests, who per¬ 
form the public services, and JDewas or descendants of priests, who 
do not perform any service. The first ida on Lombok is called Pe- 
danda . The gustis are of the Shatria caste. To the third caste, 
that of the Wasiyas, belong the traders, the makers of weapons, and 
the goldsmiths (or tukdng pdndi.) These two castes (shatrias and 
wasiyas) begin to mingle so much on Lombok that scarcely any dis¬ 
tinction is now made between them. This perhaps arises in part 
from the Raja’s being, like those of Karang Assem and Baleling 
(in Bali), of the race of theWasiya caste. The cultivators, slaves &e., 
form the caste of Sudras. This caste is less numerous on Lombok 
than elsewhere, a circumstance which the history of the government 
of Lombok readily explains. 
The castes may not intermix, with the above mentioned exception. 
The young Raja of Mataram, for example, would marry a daughter 
of the first dewa, Dewa Anum. To enable this marriage to be ef¬ 
fected it was necessary for the Dewa Anum to renounce his daugh¬ 
ter, and drive her from his house, proclaiming that she was a wicked 
daughter. Not till then could the Raja unite himself to her. She 
now acquired all the honours due to the wife of a king, but she had 
lost all the rights and honours of a daughter of a dewa. 
The Balinese of Lombok burn their dead. This is accompanied 
by very many ceremonies, which cost incredible sums of money. The 
poor, for this reason, often bury their dead, but always so that they 
can recover the bones should it ever happen that they can gather 
together enough of money to meet the expences of a cremation. 
The rich after death are embalmed, because months and even years 
often elapse before they are burned. 
On Lombok wives may suffer themselves to be burned after the 
death of their husbands. They are not compelled to it. Such an 
event very seldom occurs, and during my stay there was only a sin- 
