Note 8 — Chapter VII · [CONTINUATION OF STERN’S COMPOSITION.]

So it was arranged that we should all meet in half-an-hour, in the Regent’s large front portico. Verbrugge, who was prepared for this, had many days ago summoned to the capital8 the heads of the districts, the Patteh,9 the Kliwon, the Djaksa, the tax-gatherer, some ‘mantries’—in a word, all the native officials who had to assist at the ceremony.