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Rh from the heart of the town, we saw a good deal of native out-door life during our drive. Some distance from the first Javanese campong, we came to a second, which formed the commencement of the town. It boasted of some red-tiled houses, which gave it altogether a more substantial appearance than the attap campong we had just left behind, and was evidently densely populated. The shopkeepers seemed to include a sprinkling of Arabs and Chinese, as well as natives of the soil. The former, who are allowed to trade in this quarter by day, withdraw at night to their own campong. Among them were tin, brass, and copper smiths, while others gained a livelihood by wood-carving, or by the manufacture of those broad-brimmed and conical crowned hats which the Javanese wear. All were equally solicitous to induce us to become the purchasers of some article that might remind us of their skill and ingenuity.

Ponies, small as Egyptian donkeys, are driven