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Story
Of Bali, Indonesia
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The king whose head
went up to heaven
while he was in meditation
in what is still one of the holiest temples of Bali,
and who to his mortal
chagrin was supplied
with a substitute
pig's head by an
over-fussy prime minister,
had his palace at
the very Bedoeloe
where the Ketjak
dance is held;
and it was while bathing in the estuary
near Kloeng-Koeng
that a patih of the still
extant and distinguished
Djelantik family,
heard a lamentable
cry proceeding
from the water, which turned out
to be the voice of his father, whose
soul, in punishment for his unconscious incest, had
been imprisoned in a leech
till his son's death in battle should set it free. It
was in Denpasar that patih T'labah came out of his palace
and fell by the weapon of an assassin for having made
love to the Queen of Gelgel.
When one hears these stories on the spot one is charmed
by their unmoralizing nakedness, but I am afraid the
form in which they necessarily appear here will be characterized
as dry bones, and that the names will only see.
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