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Bali and Lombok together form a separate Residency, 
the seat of government being at Buleleng on the north 
coast of the former island. There are still seven king¬ 
doms or districts ruled over by native princes, who are 
in many cases practically possessed of despotic power, 
though all are more or less subservient to European 
rule. The two Dutch provinces are Buleleng in the 
north and Jembrana in the west. The population of 
the island is very dense, a late estimate placing it at 
802,930, or 386 to the square mile, which nearly equals 
that of the densely populated parts of Java. 
3. Lombok. 
Lombok is thus called only by Europeans, from a 
village on the northern shore of the island. The Malay 
traders call it Tana Sasak, or the Sasak country, from 
the name of the people who inhabit it. To the Balinese, 
the conquerors of the island, it is known as Selaparang. 
The island is divided from Bali by the Lombok Strait, 
which, though only 23 miles in breadth, is of great 
depth. Larger and more compact than Bali, being of a 
sub-quadrangular shape, it is about 55 miles long by 45 
broad, and has an area of 2090 square miles. Two 
mountain ranges traverse it from east to west, the 
northern volcanic and of great height, the southern of 
recent calcareous formation and low, but the chains are 
nearly joined by a lateral secondary range which divides 
the intervening valley into two. The eastern part of the 
northern chain is composed of the giant volcanic mass of 
Gunong Binjani, better known to Europeans as the Peak 
of Lombok. Its height has been variously given 
between the limits of 8000 and 14,000 feet, but Craw- 
furd, apparently on Dr. Zollinger’s authority, fixes it at 
