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amounting to fifteen hundred to two thousand able-bodied men. A Gusti commands the entire army, under the superior command of the raja
The offensive army attempts to penetrate the line of demarcation, where on both sides there are always deep ditches and high ramparts of earth. In the middle is only a passage around fifteen feet wide. Between the batteries of the two parties is a plain of around half a mile square that is considered as neutral territory, and serves as thoroughfare to the battlefield.

Several champions, come on this intervening space, and challenge their opponents, whereupon at last the two armies rush at cacti other with pointed spears. As soon as either of the two armies has ten or twelve dead, it hastily flees,
Prisoners are never spared, but killed on the spot; the supposition that they are apt to be sold as slaves is totally groundless, although during wartime rajas do send poaching squads to distant neighborhoods in the enemy's territory, to carry off the peaceful and defenseless inhabitants; they make these slaves or sell them to be transported overseas, as soon as the opportunity arises.

When a Balinese army processes, the raja is always well in the rearguard, so far that lie is totally out of range. He sits on a palanquin surrounded by a crowd of his wives who must be witnesses to his heroic exploits.
More sacred icon than commander-in-chief, the raja ill battle appears absolute. It is this ritual stereotype of power which, ill spite of the notable limits oil state influence in taxation, production, and (more than likely) conscription, stands out most vividly in Van den Brock's account. The image of a many wived king on his palanquin, safely removed from harm, sponsor of the recent slave trade, allows the Dutch still to brand Bali a despotic regime - local landownership and subsistence economics notwithstanding.