Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-10-26

the sultan saw the resident he arose
and stepped forward, the Dutch resi-
dent moved toward him, and the two
Of them shook hands and sat down side
by side. We merely bowed to his ma
josty, and were then conducted 10 seats
In the rear of him, which gave us an
excellent view of the court,
The scene was curious one, In front
OF us and to the left, extending ON and
on to the walls. was sea Of these
half-naked mobiles, each squattng on
his launches. with his white cap on his
head. To the right more in front Of
the sultan. was an equally large collec-
ton Of women all bare-headed, bare
necked and bare shouldered, and all
squattlng down on their heels. Each
had a gay sarong wrapped tightly
about her bosom. just under the arms,
so that as i looked could see only the
bare shoulders, neeks and heads of the
women, the effect being that of sea OF
naked, yellow beauties submerged to
the armpits.
ALoOK AT THE SULTAN.
The sultan sat within ten feet Of me,
He is tall, fine-looking old man, now
slightly stopped He wore black
sugarloaf cap. embroidered In gold,
black jacket, which blazed with dia-
monds and medals and a gorgeous
sarong, below which shone out slippers
OF gold. He has fine features and looks
| like a thoroughbred. He Is said TO be
well educated and TO be man OF abil-
ity. Just behind him stood number OF
female slaves, each holding certain
thing In case he might need It. One had
betel box another cigar box, and
| others articles OF the toilet Near him
| sat the crown prince, who also had five
slaves about him. The crown prince
wore blue silk jacket ana gorgeous
| sarong. He had on a black cap and
| his long hair hung down his back He
| had a great kris In his belt, and as he
| came up 10 the pavilion his bare backed
| servants carried an umbrella over him.
| | got q closer view Of him going out.
| He is OF light yellow color, having
| very bright black eyes. His teeth are
| Jet black and filed to a point. as are
| those Of most Of the women and men In
the palace.
| As we took our seats the sultans
| band played. II was stationed at the
back OF the court and its musical in
struments were sounding boards. drums
and bells peculiar to Java.
A SON OF THE SULTAN.
Next the chief actor OF the day APP
peared. This was the son Of the sui
tan, who was to be made a full-hedged
Mohammedan through certain unmen-
tionable ceremonies, which were per-
formed by the Mohammedan priests in
little pavllions OF white silk In front OF
tho pavilion where we sat. The boy
was just fifteen years old. He came
into the court bowling low and sat down
cross-legged IN front Of the pavilion
facing his majesty. He was gorgeous
ly Creased, all in green and gold. He
wore a Jacket OF green silk, a scoop
shovel hat Of green satin and sarong
OF green and silver He sparkled with
diamonds. His arms were bare and also
his legs from the knees 10 the feet but
his skin was busted with yellow pow
der which glistened like gold as the
rays OF the rising sun fell upon 1t. AZ
ter he sat there a moment the sultan
raised his hand and the boy started II
90 10 his father. He first took of his
kris or sword and laid Il down upon the
ground. for no one dare approach his
majesty with arms upon his person
Next he folded HIS hands In an att.
tude OF prayer and bowed low before
the sultan. He then crawled forward O
few steps and again bowed az In wOr.
ship. He kept on crawling and bowling
until he az last reached his fathers
feet. Here he knelt again In reverence
and then kissed the instep ~ tho f0A,
his father held out and then the knee
After this he erawlcd back to his Old
position, never rising to his feet. Thi,