Story of Bali, Indonesia

In despair they watch him guzzle; only a few horrid scraps come their way. At last he is stuffed full, and, the food patted into place, he clambers to his feet and wipes his hands on the disgusted Panas-hati's head. When the food has been collected, as clumsily as possible, with a great deal of grumbling, while a thin Balinese dog steals up to snap at the remains, Tjoepak and his servants make a long comic progress on their way to the princess.
A new scene of extravagant farce begins between the umbrellas. Comic women (played by men) arrive with their baskets at the market, and do an abandoned kind of nautch-dance, with wriggling hips and winding arms, and knees much bent, balancing their baskets on their heads with extraordinary skill

Several characteristic graveyard characters got up with white paint and carrying poles and baskets, swell the crowd and there is a typical market scene of bargaining, pushing, and screaming. Upon this enters Grantang, with delicate gestures, dressed splendidly in white and gold and green, with a glorious head-dress. While his servant jokes with the crowd he winds up the stage with the majestic grace of Rama, and receives the homage of the crowd with a dreamy, abstracted, infinitely noble air. Resplendent though he is an old shirt is offered to him, perhaps in allusion to the former market scene when he came naked, and half-starved out of the forest. Tjoepak's servant invites all the market people to the wedding, and they then disperse, followed by Grantang, still marvelously dancing.

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