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To tell the truth I found the dancers far less interesting than their audience, which consisted of several hundred women of the harem, clad in filmy, semi-transparent garments of the most beautiful colors, who watched the proceedings from the semi-obscurity of the pringitan.
The "Ruler of the World" receives his visitors who, if they are foreigners, must always be accompanied by the Dutch Resident or a member of his staff in the pringitan, or hall of audience, an immense, marble-floored chamber, supported by many marble columns.
The pringitan is open on three sides, the fourth communicating with the royal apartments and the harem, to which Europeans are never admitted. At the rear of the pringitan are a number of ornate state beds, hung with scarlet and heavily gilded, evidently placed there for purposes of display, for they showed no evidences of having been slept in.
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