. William H. Seward's travels around the world. rvant, child,or subject, to whom he speaks, but, on the contrary, affectedlylooks away from or beyond him. The palace, the grounds, and the town dependent on it, aremuch more spacious than those at Sjiandjioer, and abound withevidences of the regents wealth. His annual stipend is one hun-dred and sixty thousand guilders, about eighty thousand first it puzzled us to know how a barbarian can use such an in-come, but we were not long in finding a solution. In part, it islaid out in gems and jewels for personal ostentation, in part for the
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. rvant, child,or subject, to whom he speaks, but, on the contrary, affectedlylooks away from or beyond him. The palace, the grounds, and the town dependent on it, aremuch more spacious than those at Sjiandjioer, and abound withevidences of the regents wealth. His annual stipend is one hun-dred and sixty thousand guilders, about eighty thousand first it puzzled us to know how a barbarian can use such an in-come, but we were not long in finding a solution. In part, it islaid out in gems and jewels for personal ostentation, in part for thesupport of his family, in part for maintaining his corps of baya-deres (ballet and singing girls), and a band of musicians, in partin keeping up the most costly stud on the island, and the residuein support of a large number of relations and dependants. Thecrescent dominates everywhere in Java, and doubtless the mosquedraws heavily on the princely revenues. After an elaborate dinner, the day has ended, as at Sjiandjioer,with a native A HOSTELRY IN JAVA. CHAPTER IV. MR. SEWARD AT BAND ONG. Excursion to the Cascade.—A Perilous Road.—The Water-Fall.—An Evening at thePalace.—The Bayaderes.—Two Dwarfs.—A Chorus of Peasants.—The Little Prin-cesses.—An Excursion to Tankoeban.—Peruvian Bark.—The Top of the Volcano.—An Enchanting Scene.—The Javanese Prince. Bandong, January 23d.—It rained all night. Bad as we knewthe roads must be, the regent nevertheless ordered out his immenseEuropean carriage, with six horses, for an excursion to the Cas-cade, which is one of the wonders of the island. We were attendedby a detachment of heavy dragoons in Dutch uniforms, barefootedpostilions, and turbaned footmen. At the foot of every hill, andat every slough, a crowd of peasants appeared, as if summoned byprevious command, to drag or push our unwilling wheels. It waslike a royal progress, sach as Queen Elizabeth used to make in thesixteenth century. Twelve miles f
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