Note 5 — Chapter V · [COMPOSED BY STERN.]

While the European lives in a house, his residence is often a Kratoon,5 with many houses and villages therein. Where the European has a wife with three or four children, he supports a great number of women with their attendants. While the European rides out, followed by a few officers—as many as are necessary to draw up reports on his journey of inspection,—the Regent is followed by hundreds of retainers that belong to his suite, and in the eyes of the people these are inseparable from his high rank. The European lives citizen-like; the Regent lives—or is supposed to live—as a Prince.