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In Bali" the rajahs are Sadrayas or They are looked upon as benignant spirits, REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. Wisayu; after death the corpse is kept a long whose influence is beneficial to the human Memoir of the Life and Public Services of Sir time, by the higher classes above a year, by race. These divinities listen to the prayers, Thomas Stamford Raffles, F.R.S. &c. By the lower at least two months; the dead and are pleased with the sacrifices offered to his Widow. 4to. pp. 823. London, 1830. bodies are preserved by daily fumigation with them by mortals. They know all that passes J. Murray. benzoin, &c.; they are then burned, except on earth; they have a general superintendence ANOTHER big square book, as a royal duke children who have not shed their teeth, and over mankind and all mundane affairs; the once said to Gibbon, is an overwhelming as-persons dying of small-pox, who are buried destinies of men are in their hands, and all sault upon a poor weekly critic, who, instead immediately. The widow of the Sadraya and events are at their disposal. To these beof, lover-like, praying the gods to annihilate Wisayu classes generally burns herself with nignant beings man is indebted for the prinboth time and space, would weary them with her husband's corpse; this, however, is volun- ciple of life, and this debt is continually inpetitions to prolong the one and extend the tary; and not the wives only, but concubines, creasing through every instant of his existother. The contents of this work, too, are so and female slaves also, sacrifice themselves on ence, for the preservation and maintenance of various and interesting, combine so much of such occasions. The father of the present that principle within him. There appear to personal narrative with matters of public note, rajah of Balibing was burned with seventy-be orders and gradations of these beings; they and furnish such a mass of materials for four women. It is customary with some are not all of the same importance to man. observation, that we could hardly do them justice after a month's reading, and the dilation of a full quire of foolscap. Apologising, therefore, for a very imperfect report, we shall do little else than introduce it to our readers.

classes to throw the dead bodies into the sea.
The era is denominated Isahia: each month
has thirty-five days; the year four hundred
and twenty."

They have their abodes on the earth, and choose different parts of its surface for their habitations; some resort to the deepest and most gloomy woods and forests; some to hills Elsewhere we are told of native customs. and mountains; some preside over the rushing Sir Stamford Raffles, the son of a West "During our stay at Tranjung Alem, the torrent, while others, delighted with the gentle India captain, who did not find his way to chiefs entered into a treaty, by which they murmurs of the limpid stream, retire to its fortune in the trade, was born at sea. His placed themselves under the protection of the shady banks. Particular trees are devoted to progenitors were originally of the north of British government, and thus all cause of these deities: thus the sacred bringin tree or England; and the later branches, of Berwick-dispute and misunderstanding was at once set the venerable banyan spreads forth its shade on-Tweed. He received only two years' at rest. I must also note another occurrence in a peculiar manner, in order to shelter the boarding school tuition at Hammersmith, of moment: an old woman of rank died, and sacred habitation of a Dewa; even the kalapo being at the early age of fourteen engaged as we witnessed all the ceremonies; they com- gading, (a variety of the cocoa-nut tree), in an extra clerk in the India House; so that for menced by all the females of the village re-the opinion of these superstitious people, is all his acquirements he was indebted to his pairing to the house of the deceased, and under the benignant influence of a holy Dewa, own love of instruction and industry. These setting up a squall something like the Irish who resides in its branches, and produces a qualities, with a most retentive memory, howl for an hour or two. After this the body more excellent sort of fruit. But besides these enabled him greatly to surmount the deficiency was removed to the Bali, or hall of audience, there is another order of beings, whose inof education, and raise himself to honourable where we were to dine; we, however, pre- fluence is far less benignant. They are called distinction in life. He was also possessed of ferred dining in another place, but in the Jins, or evil spirits, and are considered to be high moral worth, and, especially as an af- evening it was expected that we should be the authors of evil. All the misfortunes and fectionate son, from first to last displayed a present at the ceremony, which consisted of calamities attendant on human life proceed from very excellent disposition. dancing and singing, in the presence of the them. They likewise have their residence on Having, by his good conduct, secured the whole village assembled in the hall where the different parts of the earth; and should a man approbation of his superiors, he was in 1805 body lay. On the next morning the head of by accident approach the unhallowed spot, he sent out as assistant secretary to Penang, the village killed a goat and sprinkled the usually feels the anger of these resentful spirits. where the Company had resolved on a settle-blood about the house of the deceased, and all There is still another class of beings, who, in ment. With his usual diligence, he speedily the maidens within hail attended at the Bali, regard to the qualities and attributes ascribed zade himself master of the Malay language, contending with each other who should exclaim to them, appear to possess a middle rank beand acquired so much general information on loudest: Oh mother! come back, mother, tween the Dewas and the Jins, approaching every subject connected with the Indian Archi- come back!' This continued till they con- much nearer to the nature of the former. pelago, as to render himself and his services cluded the body would keep no longer, when it They are termed Orang Alus, that is, fine, indispensable for all the operations pursued in was hurried off, and quietly carried out of the impalpable, or invisible men. I do not know that quarter. Before 1808 he had become village to a grave, in which it was interred the precise office or nature of this fairy tribe. secretary, and in that year visited Malacca, without further ceremony. The people, though They seem to be a mixture of material and improving himself in all kinds of useful know-professedly Mahomedans, seem more attached immaterial beings, partaking of the nature of ledge. In 1811, when Lord Minto undertook to their ancient worship and superstitions than men and spirits. I have seen a man who, it the expedition against Java, it may readily be I expected. I clearly traced an ancient my- was said, was wedded to one of these Orang supposed that the counsels of Mr. Raffles were thology, and obtained the names of at least Alus. I concluded his children partook of the sight; and accordingly we find that he bore twenty gods, several of whom are Hindus. * * nature of their mother, for although he had a a very prominent part in that important con- "They have no idea of one eternal Supreme large family, nobody had ever seen one. quest, of which he was appointed governor. Being, who made all things; although they name of the man was Dupati Rajo Wani; in In this high station he remained till 1816; frequently make use of the expression Allah appearance he much resembled a wizard. Such and from 1817 to 1824 had the charge of Tuah, the term by which the Arabians express are the ridiculous ideas of this people! But Bencoolen and its dependencies. His life and that idea, and, borrowing from the latter, are they more gross than those entertained by correspondence in these employments unfold which the Malays use to express the same the Greeks and Romans with regard to their the history of the commerce, resources, lite-idea; but the more ignorant Pasumah affixes deities? The manes of their ancestors are rature, zoology, and other scientific relations no such meaning to it. Ask him what he held in the highest veneration, and are esof this portion of the world; and from the means by it, and he replies, it is one of the teemed not inferior to the gods themselves. details we make the following characteristic Dewas. In the mythology of these people, They suppose them to take concern in the miscellaneous selections, as fairly illustrative of Dewas are the highest order of beings, whom welfare of their posterity, over whom they are the work before us. they regard with superstitious reverence, always watchful. They have a strong regard

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