"On being questioned regarding the _ádat_ against adultery, theft, and other crimes, their reply was unanimous and ready--that crimes of this kind were unknown to them, and that consequently no punishment was fixed, either by law or custom; that if a man did wrong, the head of the village chid him for it, the reproach of which was always sufficient punishment for a man of _Teng'ger_. This account of their moral character is fully confirmed by the Regents of the districts, under whose authority they are placed, and also by the residents. They, in fact, seem to be almost without crime, and are universally peaceable, orderly, honest, industrious, and happy. They are unacquainted with the vice of gambling and the use of opium. "The aggregate population is about twelve hundred souls; and they occupy, without exception, the most beautifully rich and romantic spots on Java; a region in which the thermometer is frequently as low as forty-two. The summits and slopes of the hills are covered with Alpine firs, and plants common to an European climate flourish in luxuriance. "Their language does not differ much from the Javan of the present day, though more gutturally pronounced. Upon a comparison of about a hundred words with the Javan vernacular two only were found to differ. They do not marry or intermix with the people of the low-lands, priding themselves on their independence and purity in this respect." BALI. As in Java, the people of Bali took a civilization from India. Unlike the Javanese, they have retained it to the present day. SUMBAWA, ENDÉ, OMBAY. At Bali and Java, the type is unequivocally Malay. At Timor it is Malay also, but altered. The Timorians are considerably darker than the Javanese; their features are coarser, their lips are sometimes thick, and their hair often frizzy. In the islands between, occur numerous transitional forms; both in feature and language. In respect to this last, the islands at the head of this section afford three remarkable vocabularies. 1. The Timbora, from a district of Sumbawa; 2. The Mangarei, from a part of Endé, or Floris; 3. The Ombay, from the island so called; the inhabitants of which are described by Arago as black cannibals with flattened noses and thickened lips. In each of these vocabularies, Malay words form the greater proportion. In each of them, however, are also found Australian vocables. The following, from the three _very short_ vocabularies of these three languages, are what I published in the Appendix to Mr. Jukes' Voyage of the _Fly_. 1. Arm=_ibarana_, Ombay; _porene_, Pine Gorine dialect of Australia. 2. Hand=_ouine_, Ombay; _hingue_, New Caledonia. 3. Nose=_imouni_, Ombay; _maninya_, _mandeg_, _mandeinne_, New Caledonia; _mena_, Van Diemen's Land, western dialect: _mini_, Mangarei: _meoun_, _muidge_, _mugui_, Macquarie Harbour.