[69] Including, besides the palaces and palace grounds, thickly inhabited little towns. The _kraton_ of Surakarta contains, _e.g._, more than ten thousand people, all belonging to the imperial family and household, from the princes to their dependents, servants and hangers on: court dignitaries, court functionaries, gold- and silversmiths, wood-carvers, carpenters, masons, musicians, etc. Within its walls is also the imperial _mesdjid_, a fine, large building with a widely visible gilt roof. [70] The _garebeg mulood_, _garebeg puasa_ and _garebeg besar_, corresponding with the _maulid_ (feast of the Prophet’s birth), _id al-fitr_ (feast of breaking the fast) and _id al-qorban_ (feast of the sacrifice). [71] _Krissing_, a form of capital punishment until recently still in use in the island of Bali, consisted in driving a kris to the heart of the condemned man, sometimes under circumstances of refined cruelty, the executioner not being permitted to put an end to his victim’s agony before the prince, presiding in person or by deputy, had given the signal for the _coup de grâce_. [72] A story is told of a Susuhunan of Surakarta having ordered a magnificent landau from one of the first _carrossiers_ in Paris, that the favoured industrial was advised to send some cooking-pans with it on delivery. Asking: What for? he got the answer: To poach the eggs his Highness’ chickens will lay in your carriage. Splendour and squalor live near together in the households of thriftless oriental potentates. [73] For usage with mortal man is like the leaf On the bough, which goes and another comes. [74] Governor and Director of Java’s northeast coast, afterwards member of the Governor-General’s Council at Batavia. [75] Published by H. D. H. BOSBOOM from papers in the Dutch National Archives. [76] Titular Major, afterwards Lieutenant-Colonel of the Corps of Engineers, Director of Fortifications and Inspector of Canals, Dams, Dikes and Waterways. [77] REIMER’S description leaves Taman Ledok _in dubio_ and a reason for his probable non-admittance there, may be found in the circumstance that it appears to have been the part of the pleasance reserved for the recreation of the Sooltan’s concubines. [78] Whence the name: _oombool_, like _sumoor_, means “well” or “spring”, and _gumuling_, derived from _guling_, means “rolled up”, “lying flat.” [79] For nature in woman Is so near akin to art. [80] Kiahi is a very common one. Dr. J. GRONEMAN, whose description of the water-castle at Jogjakarta contains a good many interesting particulars, mentions the name of the barge of state, presented to Paku Buwono I. by the East India Company, Niahi Kuning, as, to his knowledge, the only instance of a female appellation being given to royal paraphernalia--perhaps on the same principle as that which makes us, too, speak of a ship as of a “she”. [81] Emblems of royalty; more strictly: objects of virtu belonging to the reigning family.