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the ground till he has passed. Here, as in Bali, the 
women are the chief traders; and the market of 
Ampanam, held under a magnificent avenue of fig trees, 
is an interesting sight, where all the chief products of 
the country and the many races that inhabit or frequent 
it are to be found collected together. A few miles 
inland the Baja has a park and pleasure-house called 
Gunong Sari, where there are handsome brick gateways 
with Hindu deities in stone, resembling those of the 
ruined cities of Java; fish-ponds stocked with fish, which 
come to be fed on the striking of a gong; and deer which 
will come out of the woods to take bread from the 
visitors hand. There are also fantastic pavilions, gro¬ 
tesque statues, and groves of fruit trees,—altogether a 
very pretty place, though now much neglected, but still 
serving to show that these Bajas of Bali had once some 
love and admiration both for nature and art. 
The population is estimated at about 540,000, which 
is at the very high proportion of about 2 5 8 to the square 
mile. Of these about 30,000 only are Balinese, and 
about one-fifth of that number Bugis and Malays. The 
Sumbawa eruption of 1815 was the cause of the death 
of many thousands, the island being buried in ashes to 
the depth of 18 inches, and of late smallpox and cholera 
have also been very fatal. 
4. Sumbawa. 
Crossing the Allas Strait from Lombok, only 10 miles 
in width, we come to the much larger island of Sumbawa, 
which is 170 miles long, and exceedingly irregular in 
shape, being almost cut in two by the deep and wide 
Sale Gulf. Its area is estimated at about 5300 square 
miles, or a little greater than that of Jamaica, and it is 
