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 SEQUEL OF JAVANESE HISTORY. 355 his honour and his crown, he gave himself up to every ilHberal pleasure. The loyal chief of the district, to gratify his prince, directed an inclosure to be constructed, and here assembled a variety of game, to afford him, at an easy rate, the diversion of shooting. The Susunan, wit his family, men and women, repaired to the spot, and, taking up a bow and arrow, he began the sport by shooting a deer. The chief of Pronorogo, seeing the game fall, ran into the inclosure, and directed the priest to slaughter the animal according to the rites of the Ma- homedan religion, that it might be legal food. But he was unused to the severe punctilio of a Javanese court, which permits no order, however trivial or in- different, to be given in the prese^ice without the royal nodof assent. The brutal and infatuated prince proceeded on the spot to punish this breach of eti- quette, and, before the thousands who were as- sembled, not forgetting the females of his own fa- mily, ordered the chief to be emasculated, and had the satisfaction to see his host faint before him from the pain of the operation. This act was too much even for the forbearance and slavish loyalty of the Javanese ; and the relations of the chief of Pronorogo were preparing to retaliate, but the Su- susan, receiving notice of their intentions, eluded their vengeance by a precipitate flight. The Pangeran Pugar took the title of Pakubu^ wono, a name which has since descended to all