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 28 GOVERNMENT. The village officers are no longer nominated by the franchises of the people, but by the fiat of the sovereign ; anarcliy and disorder prevail, and the people are seized and sold into slavery. All this is the case among the petty principalities of the island of Bali, almost to the same extent as in Ce- lebes, the great nursery of slaves. among them, he will send to borrow so much money, pre- tending urgent occasions for it ; and thej dare not deny him. Sometimes he will send fo sell one thing or another that he hath to dispose of, to such whom he knows to have money, and they must buy it, and give him his price; and if after- wards he hath occasion for the same thing, he must have it if he sends for it." — Dampicr, Vol. I. p. 333.