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Rh of some of their viands. On my asking him his reason, he replied,

" They eat unclean animals, sir, such as swine and other beasts of the forest."

Before the principal hut was a bench, covered with white cloth, on which sat Nonyha (or Mrs.) Van Rhee. Her dress, partly Javanese, and partly European, consisted of a pair of white trowsers, over which was the sarong. Her kabaya was made of muslin, and she wore a salen dang across her shoulder. The most comical part of her dress, however, was the broad-brimmed felt wide-awake, round the crown of which a white muslin pugrie was wound.

A short distance from this bench were twenty mats, placed on the Sand Sea, on each of which knelt a young priest, having before him a box of myrrh, aloes, frankincense, and other spices, which are sold for offerings. At right angles with this row of mats was another row, with the same