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 ^68 RELIGION OF BALI. harbours, and even of tolerably safe anchoring ground. This has kept away the Mahomedan merchants, by whose means Islam was propagat- ed in the other countries of the Archipelago. At present the Balinese, without hating the Mahome- dan religion, or persecuting its followers, show no small degree of jealousy of it.