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12 shooting-coat is added to this singular attire, which only increases, if possible, its ludicrous effect. The cigar, I need hardly say, is their constant companion. The ladies adopt in-doors a kind of native dress, wearing the sarong and kabaya. The upper garment, however, which is long, is invariably white, and often very daintily trimmed with lace, &c.; but in this costume they are seldom seen beyond the house or grounds, though we have observed a few taking their morning promenade thus attired.

The Dutchman's mode of life in Java is as follows. He rises generally at five, lights his cigar, and then sallies forth to take his stroll, or, as the natives term it, makan angin, signifying, literally, to eat the wind. About seven he returns to partake of a collation of eggs and cold meat, after which he drinks his tea or coffee, and smokes again. He then takes his bath, throwing buckets of water over his head, after the manner adopted