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Carpenter's Letter
(Continued from Sixth l'nge.)
to spuik of. Tho Inrgest stonmorB do not
call tiiuro ntnl t lie chief business Is dono by
nntlir snlllng vessels, which coma In to buy
birds tu-sts to sell to tho Chinese for soup,
0 also tortoise shell and wnx, sandal wood
and clntinninu.
The natives wear snrongs llko tho Java-
They nro Inller than them and more
winy built. They nre darker than tho
and havo frizzly hair, which Is
wavy nnd woolly, They tllu their
to a point.
hey nro pagans, worshiping the earth
I am told they do not cultivate tho earth
In' 'auso they consider It holy, nnd that they
only dig for water at times of drouth,
wVn they make holes In the river beds.
A mug the coast thoro are some Moliamme
dans nnd n few Roman Catholics. Thcru
nru two Dutch Catholic mission stations
tho Island, but, ns a rule, little mission
ork lins been done. This Is so throughout
-1.0 wholo Dutch Kast Indies. Tho Dutch
government docs not encourage mission
urlos nnd I doubt whether nny American
missionaries would bo permitted to settle
In nny of tho Asiatic possessions of Hoi-
and with n view to Christianizing tho
.icoplc.
I, ii ml of I'lnv
Snlllng on westwnrd from Klores, w?
mssed by volcanic Islands until wo saw
Sumbawn, tho land of lire. This Island l.s
bigger than Jamaica, nnd It has mnny vol
ennooH. active and dormant. It has one
whose crater Is more tlrm seven miles wide
and so big that you could drop tho city of
Washington In It and loso It. Tho crater
was caused by tho eruption of Mount
Tambora In ISIS, when the wholo npex of
tho mountain, a mass higher and thicker
than all .Mount Washington, was blown up
Into tho air. Tambora was thou 13,000 feet
high and 8,000 feet of It was sent skyward.
Tho explosion was so greit that It was
heard In Sumatra, 1,000 miles awny, nnd
also on tho Island of Tornnto, 900 miles In
tho opposlto direction. That wns n sample
of old Mother Earth's fireworks In this part
of tho world. Sho Is always spitting for'h
flro and (lame. I can seo tho smoko arising
from sovernl ponks hero at Soerbnla and
for many months I havo been In sight of
volcanoes, living and dead.
Tho eruption of Tambora was among tho
greatest ever known. Sea captains tell me
that tho ocean for miles nbout wns covered
with floating timber. Thoro was so much
nshes on tho sea that tho ships hnd troublo
In mnklng their wny through them, nnd
nshes so filled tho air that It was pitch dark
tho daytlnio long nfter tho explosion
awny off hero in Jnvn, hundreds of miles to
tho westwnrd. Tho whirlwinds wcro ter
rible. They tore up tho Inrgest trees by tho
roots. Men, horses nnd cattlo were lifted
up Into the nlr and carried miles. Tho
population nho'it the volcnno wns destroyed
nnd nltogotber 70,000 of tho natives lost
their lives. Thero wns a town lying at
tho foot of tho mountain, on tho edgo of
the sea. When tho top blow off this town
sank, tho sea water covered It to tho depth
of eighteen feet and thero It Is to this day.
At present thero Is no evidence of flro nbout
this volcano. It made ono big blaze nnd
then went out. Tho Junglo hns slnco grown
over tho streams of lnvn and tho crater Is
now a mass of green, with ragged green
edges.
The Island of Sumbawn Is ruled by tho
Dutch through tho natives. Thero aro two
towns, each of which Iuih nbout H.OOO peo
ple, and, In addition, about 110,000 living In
villages. Tho people aro not unllko our
Moros. They Imve two sultans nnd mnny
tribal chiefs. They are farmers and pony
raisers. N'enrly every mnn has his own
pony nnd almost every native rides, carry
ing n spenr with him. Ho keeps his weapon
with him when at work In tho fields.
Ilmv (lit- IIiiJiiIi Took lln- (Viiniin.
Shortly nfter lenving Siimlmwn wo eamo
to tho Island of I.ombok. This Is one of
tho most Interesting of tho Dutch posses
sions. It has been settled for thousandM of
yenrs, but It has been so flint off from tho
rest of tho world that lis natives nro about
tho same an tho Javanese wero when tho
Dutch first enme. Mnny of them nro still
Hindoos In religion, and they nro divided
prolty well Into castes. Every now nnd
then a widow Is bun ed on tho funeral pyro
of her husband, nnd tho nntlves havo other
old Hlmlon customs,
Tho Dutch govern Lombok Just ns thoy
do Jnvn, nnd tho tnxes nro now collected
by tho nntlvo ofuelnlH with the nBslstanco
of tho Hollanders. At ono tlmo In tho past,
nccordlng to Alfred Kussell Wnllncc, an
explorer who spent hoiho time In Lombok,
the rajah who was then supremo In the
country hnd grent troublo in mnklng tho
nntlves pay up. All taxes wero collected
In rice, every vlllngo giving so much, ac
cording to tho number of Its InlmbltantH.
Tho tax wns light, I tit tho island wns so
thickly populated that tho rnjah should
have had enriigh for himself and all his
nlllelals. He hud. however, thousands of
Tes through whom tho tnxes pnssed, nnd
after a time ho found his revenues steadily
falling. Kiportu were sent In from one
district that the people wero sick nnd could
net pny. from another that tho crops had
fallen off, nnd from others that tho vol
canoc3 had destroyed tho lands. At thi
nmo tlmo It wns otmrrved that tho nobles
wero better dressed than ever and that
mnny were wenrlng gold nnd diamonds.
Tho rnjah suspected something wrong.
He looked over hits receipts nnd found, ac
cording to reports, that tho populntion of
tbo Island bad fallen off. He should have
fflVngM'iiXirUUSOUM
slHHHjilHHHESB
THE It J MI AND
so much rice from each man. woman and
child, and lo! then weio not half ns many
on tho Island as during his father's time.
Ho wnnted to take it new census, with tho
hope of Incrontdiig his le.enue, but he
knew that If he asked his olllcers for It
they would quickly understand that ho
was nfter their stealings and tho number
turned In would Just bo oqunl to tho
amount of rlco ho got last year, so that It
bo bad a cousin taken It must bo without
tbo people knowing It.
Consulted tin- I .'rent Spirit.
Ho thought tho mutter over nnd at last,
evolved tho following plan of action: Ho
sent out word to nil his chiefs, priests nnd
princes to come to his capital. Upon their
arrival ho told them that ho hnd hnd a
vision In which the spirit of tho lire lnoiiu
taln hnd come to him and directed him to
nscend tho volcano, when It would ugaln
appear to him In the llesh and give him a
communication of gnat Importance to tho
people. He said that the chiefs must go
with him almost to the top nnd thnt every
vlllngo must furnish men to clear tho roads
nnd build bridges. This wns done nnd with
grent ceremony his roynl highness mndo
the Journey, while the people united nnd
wondered. As they neareil the top of the
mountain the rajah ordered all to halt mid
ho went on nlone to tho extinct crater,
lie remained there n day nnd a night nnd
then enme hick looking very grnvo. Ho
Kn til Hint he bail bad a communication, hut
would not tell what It wns. Ho said
nothing until be had reached his capita1,
when ho assembled the chiefs, princes nnd
priests and told them how tho (Irent Spirit
hail nppcnnd to him with a face like bur
nished geld nnd said:
"Oh, rnjah. much plague nnd sickness
and fevers nre ernilng upon nil tho earth,
upon men, upon horses nnd upon cattle, but
ns you and your people hnve obeyed me
and come to my great mountain I will
teach yen how yen and all tho pcoplo of
lombok may i scape the plague."
Tho nobles were teriiflid. but they waited
to hear tho mothod of their salvation
After a short silence the rnjah told I licit
that tho Oreat Spirit had commanded that
twelve wiorod krlses or swords bo mado
nnd thnt to mnko them every vlllngo nnd
every district must send n buiidl of
needles, one needle for every bend In tho
village. And when nny grlovnus dhenfl
nppenred In nny vlllngo ono of the sacred
krlses should ho sent thero nnd If every
house In that vlllngo had sent the right
number of needles tho dlsenso would Im
mediately ceaso. Hut If not tho krls would
bo of no nvnll nnd tho people would die.
Very SiiierNlllloiiN.
Tho nntlviM of I.ombok were very super
stitious. The nobles believed In their rn
jah. They sent word out to their villages
nnd all mado hasto to collect tho needles
with tho greatest neeurncy, for thoy fenced
thnt If one were wnntltig the whole vlllngo
would suffer One by ono Die bend m n
of the vlllnges brought In their no. dies
SLEEPING DOLL
vvmuiiiHiiuni
rune TO GIN LS.
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curl- htlr, hat, ihoea, ht linji, tic,, it mi.kl,
OnL-r 33 rtovvltlea nt emu, h tfuir (i
frlrn.li, C'( ut th iiwmry an I rw tin . ,
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the iltjItstt? ate d mm
HIS OKKICKliS
'1 ho rajah received them with his own
haniU ami marked the mime of the village
and district on each bundle and laid them
away In a camphor wood chest. When
they were all In the rnjah ordered the
krisis to be mado from them under bis own
eye and they were packed away for tho
time of the plague. Soon after tills the
collection of taxeti occurred. To those vil
lages who paid almost the full tax the
rajah said nothing, but those who paid
i Ply a half or a fourth of what they should
he gave warning, saying:
"The needlis from your vlllngo nre
many more than from such another vil
lage, yet your taxes aro much less than
theirs. There must be a mistake, (lo back
and see who has not paid his taxes."
They did so and the taxes were at once
increased, for according io law the rnjah
could put to death those who did not pa
Justly. And so the rajah became rich. He
Inerinsed his so'dlers ulid gave gold and
Jewels to his wife. He kept the krlses and
If sickness uppcniod In tho vlllngo he sent
one to II. Then if the sickness went nwny
tho krls wtis supposed to hnve honied It
uuil the head men told Hie rajah of its
miraculous powi r. If It did not go away
every one was convinced that tip re must
have been n mistake In the number of
needles sent from that village and Un
people thought the fault win Ihelr own.
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