[77] Reimer’s description leaves Taman Ledok in dubio and a reason for his probable non-admittance there, may be found in the circumstance that it appears to have been the part of the pleasance reserved for the recreation of the Sooltan’s concubines.
[78] Whence the name: oombool, like sumoor, means “well” or “spring”, and gumuling, derived from guling, means “rolled up”, “lying flat.”
For nature in woman
Is so near akin to art.
[80] Kiahi is a very common one. Dr. J. Groneman, whose description of the water-castle at Jogjakarta contains a good many interesting particulars, mentions the name of the barge of state, presented to Paku Buwono I. by the East India Company, Niahi Kuning, as, to his knowledge, the only instance of a female appellation being given to royal paraphernalia—perhaps on the same principle as that which makes us, too, speak of a ship as of a “she”.
[81] Emblems of royalty; more strictly: objects of virtu belonging to the reigning family.
[82] A pusaka is an heirloom, generally with luck bringing properties either to the rightful owner or to any one who secures possession of it.
[83] Lit. “the high place” of the kraton.
[84] Short for dos-à-dos, a kind of vehicle naturalised in Java; offering only problematic comfort at its very best, the ramshackle specimens plying for hire in the streets of the capital towns of the island, beat everything ever invented anywhere else in the world for inflicting torture on the pretext of conveyance.
[85] Doits are copper coins of endless variety, demonetised more than half a century ago but still used by the natives almost exclusively and to the prejudice of the legal “cent”, the hundredth part of the “guilder” or legal unit of the Dutch East Indian currency, notwithstanding the Government’s efforts (on paper) through the medium of financial geniuses, whose name is Legion and whose practical performance is Nihil, to put the monetary system and colonial finance in general on a firm, workable basis.