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 A RECEPTION. 55

or English, and we were ignorant of Dutch, our conversation was carried on in Malay, which, as spoken here, differs in some points from that spoken in the Malayan peninsula. This difference is doubtless owing to its being mixed with many words of the Javanese language.

The evening following our arrival within the fort happening to be the colonel's birthday, he in- vited his officers and some of the native princes to a reception; but, as there were no ladies present except our hostess and my wife, the amusement of the evening was princi})ally at the vist tables, a game of which the Dutch are particularly fond. The ]{esident and some princes were of the party, Avhich was of sufficient ini])ortance to merit particular de- scrijition.

1'lie first who arrived was distinguished by the high-sounding title of Pangeran Addi Phati-sarie Munko-Nctroro. The fact of his bcinir a (U'scend- ant of tlic Miuiko-Xciroi'o ahvadv mentioned a

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