great amount the services of half a dozen sturdy followers are required.
Nákhodá Muda as well his deceased master, Ishmaila, did the King good service in a war with his brother in which he proved successful. For this reason Muda is allowed to trade exempt from all duties. Mr King pays the Rájá about 4,000 dollars annually and possesses several duties and monopolies. In Singapore the Nákhodá, like other considerable Bugís traders, is always attended by a large train of Bugis followers who shew him the same respect that a Malay chief receives from his retainers.
I was unable to arrive at any certain conclusions respecting the amount and distribution of the population, the quantity of exports, military strength &e., Nákhodá Muda promised to do his hest to procure for me copies of the Agámá and Digámá and other books.
Such was the amount of our meagre information respecting Lombok before the late Dutch expedition to Báli. With respect to the latter island Mr. Freiderich's work may be expected soon to dispel the obscurity that still envelopes it. In anticipation of the early completion of this work we do not publish the translations which we have made of the notices in the Tijdschrift referred to by Dr. Hoëvell in his address, but if it should be postponed we shall insert them. In the meantime we shall give some extracts from Mr. Zollinger's recent interesting papers on Báli and Lombok (or Sassak). This naturalist, who is a member of the scientific commission of Netherlands India, has not only distinguished himself by his botanical discoveries, but by an ardent and enlightened pursuit of almost every kind of knowledge that can be acquired while engaged in prosecuting his researches. He is now investigating Sumbawa, and the other islands of the chain that stretches east from Java. The fullness with which he has treated of Bálí and Lombok precludes us from giving his papers entire in one number. We begin with his notices of the religion of Lombok as it is likely to prove interesting to our readers from the singular modification which the Hindu practise of Suttee has there undergone.
