. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. INHABITANTS OF JAVA. 167 mingled with traces of Buddhism. These highlanders are distinguished from their Mohammedan neighbours by their honesty and more correct morals. Amongst them murder, theft, and adultery are unknown, and visitors guilty of any mis- demeanour are banished from the commune. The heads of the villages take the names of " father " and " source of ; The Javanese proper, representing over two-thirds of the population, occupy all the central provinces east of Cheribon Bay, as well as the northern seaboard bet
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. INHABITANTS OF JAVA. 167 mingled with traces of Buddhism. These highlanders are distinguished from their Mohammedan neighbours by their honesty and more correct morals. Amongst them murder, theft, and adultery are unknown, and visitors guilty of any mis- demeanour are banished from the commune. The heads of the villages take the names of " father " and " source of ; The Javanese proper, representing over two-thirds of the population, occupy all the central provinces east of Cheribon Bay, as well as the northern seaboard between Cheribon and the Sunda Strait, and the whole of the south-east coast. Their ancient liturgical language, the Kavi, that is, " cultivated," contains a large number of Sanskrit words. It has been preserved from oblivion by old documents and inscriptions, and numerous traces survive, especially in Javanese poetry. The great scenes of Hindu mythology are still commemorated in the national legends, poems, theatrical representations, and those icajcmgs, or marionettes, in which the natives take such delight. Fig. 66.—Inhahttants of Java. Scale 1: 11,000, Sundanese. Javanes?. Madurese. 180 Miles. Tenggerese. Amid the Javanese populations, there still exists a community of about three thousand fugitive Sivaites, who have preserved both their Hindu practices and their ancient dialect largely affected by elements derived from the sacred language. These are the Tengger people, who have taken refuge on the plateau of that name. Here they occupy large houses where several families reside under one roof, and where they keep alive the sacred flame, which has never been extinguished since it was brought ages ago from the shores of India. Modern Javanese is divided into several provincial dialects, each of which, like the Sundanese, comprises two forms, the "high" and the "low" {Kromo and Ngoko), the first used in addressing superiors or equals when tre
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