The village officers are no longer nominated by
the franchises of the people, but by the fiat of the
sovereign ; anarchy and disorder prevail, and the
people are seized and sold into slavery. All this
is the case among the petty principalities of the
island of Bali, almost to the same extent as in Celebes,
the great nursery of slaves.
among them, he will send to borrow so much money, pretending
urgent occasions for it ; and they dare not deny him.
Sometimes he will send to sell one thing or another that he
hath to dispose of, to such whom he knows to have money,
and they must buy it, and give him his price; and if afterwards
he hath occasion for the same thing, he must have it if
he sends for it.”—Dumpier, Vol. I. p. 335.
CHAPTER II.
CLASSIFICATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE
PEOPLE.
The people divided into six classes.—Account o f the royalfamily,
or first class O f the nobility, or second class.— Of
the priesthood, or third class.— O f the freemen, or fourth
class O f debtors, or the fifth class.— O f slaves, or the
sixth class.
A mong the Indian islanders, generally, there exists
no factitious and hereditary distribution of
the people into various employments—no institution
of casts. The following natural orders
exist in the society, of each of which it will be
necessary to give a separate account. The royal
family—the nobles—the priests—the cultivators,
or freemen—debtors—slaves.
Among all the tribes of the Indian islands where
absolute government is established, the title of the
royal family to the throne is considered divine
and indefeasible. Their claims are 'guarded by
superstition; and the Malay and Javanese languages
have peculiar words to express the judgment
of Providence that would fall upon the man of in