. William H. Seward's travels around the world. broke. A rope of buffalo hide was substituted for it, and wehad scarcely taken the road again, when the shoe itself gave , with careful driving, and our lopers holding us back, weescaped harm. So at six oclock we entered this very pretty vil-lage, which, although a native one, is laid out in streets and squares,with that degree of geometrical precision, and ornamented withthat peculiar taste, which is everywhere so observable in the Neth- 296 THE EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO, ETC. erlands. The governor-general having dispatched notice of ourcoming,
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. broke. A rope of buffalo hide was substituted for it, and wehad scarcely taken the road again, when the shoe itself gave , with careful driving, and our lopers holding us back, weescaped harm. So at six oclock we entered this very pretty vil-lage, which, although a native one, is laid out in streets and squares,with that degree of geometrical precision, and ornamented withthat peculiar taste, which is everywhere so observable in the Neth- 296 THE EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO, ETC. erlands. The governor-general having dispatched notice of ourcoming, and also sent with us his young kinsman Mr. Lowe, Avewere met outside of the town by a native subaltern officer, in Dutchuniform, and conducted to the palace in the centre of a park largerthan the Capitol-grounds at Washington. Here, under a tastefulporte-cochere, we were received by the Regent Prawiro da is a lineal descendant of the long-since dethroned Kings of Pad-jadjura in the western empire of Java, and bears the titular hon-. THi: RECENT DA KEDYA. ors of Padhe Sonnengoniz. The regent is thirty years old, digni-fied and handsome, and has pleasing manners. A Mohammedan,he wears a turban of orange and black muslin, a tight black-clothjacket, with large gold buttons, and a standing collar, on whichsparkle three enormous diamonds, and with the whitest of linenat neck and wrist. A sarong of gay-colored muslin, painted withfigures emblematic of his rank, hangs from his waist over blacktrousers. White stockings and gold-embroidered velvet shoes com- DUTCH COLONIZATION. 297 plete his dress. He wears at his side a short sword, with scabbardof gold, and hilt profusely covered with diamonds. Owing to the humidity of the climate, a customary law of land-scape gardening is so far reversed that the area which immediatelysurrounds the palace, although ornamented with trees, is pavedwith gravel instead of being a green lawn. The palace, one storyin height, is equal i
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