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Kraton once or twice every clay in a shabby yellow car, the shape of a boat, with poles at the four corners, supporting a leathern canopy. His minis- ters, and not unfrequently his daughters and grand- children, accompany him, apparently more content in this simple turn-out than in his grand state carriages, ])haetons, or broughams, of which he has no less than one hundred cuid Jiftij!

lie is so much a state prisoner that he cannot drive beyond the Kraton without acqviainting the Resident with his intention, and reporting, on his return, the places he has been to.

On Mondays and Thursdays he sits in the Pon- (lo])^ where lie receives salutations and good wishes from liis subjects, pi'omotes his ofHcers of state, and attends to the reports of his Kegents, Tumum- fTiin;s. I'aiiixerans, and Wodonos.

IJeyond the Pi-iiigitan stands the Kuma, or palace. From the ceiling of the verandah hung numbers of caiKk'lubi'as, but, as the doors and

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