sympathy and confidence towards Europeans. 2/9 
hundred Malays of every hind, and a similar number of Chinese 
workers in the tin mines. The Jakuns themselves had not been for-, 
gotten upon such an occasion ; doubtless to prevent their resentment 
which could be followed by the most fatal consequences to the fate 
of the new spouses, and possibly also in order to render the feast 
more solemn, they had been invited; nearly one hundred Jakuns 
were already come, and a greater number more yet expected. We 
looked about us to find out in the middle of such a tumult some 
place where we could put up and place our things in security 
Many houses had been built for the occasion, but were already filled 
with people. There was a quarter appropriated for the lodge¬ 
ment of the Malay priests and hadjis; another for the common Ma¬ 
lays ; and a third for the use of Chinese. We turned towards this 
last and were received by the Chinese with the usual urbanity and 
politeness characteristic of that nation. We entered the house of a 
Chinese, which we were immediately invited to do by the owner, a 
chief of the miners, who with kindness ceded to us the half of his 
lodging. After having cleaned our clothes a little, (which were the 
ordinary lay dress of a gentleman, the sonton being too cumbersome 
in such journey,) we asked that we might be allowed to see the king ; 
we were then introduced into the palace around which we perceived 
many tents pitched in several places ; and in the middle of a large 
place a high and rich tent, for the use of the new spouses, and com¬ 
municating with the royal house by a long covering which was extend¬ 
ed and established a shaded passage between these two appartments. 
The whole was adorned with standards of every kind, and with ban¬ 
derols of every colour, and presented a rural, but agreeable aspect. 
We were then introduced into a tent which appeared to be one of those 
applied to the service of the king. We had scarcely sat down, when 
the king himself entered accompanied by his brother; both took their 
places in a part of the tent adorned with draperies, forming a sort of 
throne. The king was dressed in a baju of red velvet, with gold 
embroidery, a silk sarong of a brown colour, and trousers about the 
same, with a silk handkerchief surrounding Ms head ; his brother 
L&d a violet velvet baju, a blue sarong, and the rest of his dress much 
