282 SYMPATHY AND CONFIDENCE TOWARDS EUROPEANS. 
About three o’clock in the afternoon a fresh distributions of victuals 
again took place. At five o’clock, the new spouses took their bath 
and during that time, the Malay and Chinese musicians performed 
in the same way as during the drive. At six o’clock, more firing of 
cannon, and then commenced gambling, which was kept up nearly 
the whole night. Several choirs of vocal music accompanied by soft 
gongs alternately relieved each other, both day and night. On the 
morning following the second night after our arrival, we went to 
take leave of the king, and thank him for his kindness ; and leav¬ 
ing the place behind us, we heard yet for a long time from afar the 
continued noise of the feast; and which had so powerfully stunned 
my ears, that the next day it was yet ringing in them. 
