Miscellaneous Papers Relating to Indo-China: Reprinted for the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society from Dalrymple's "Oriental Repertory," and the "Asiatic Researches" and "Journal" of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Band 1Trübner & Company, 1887 |
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Seite 263 - RAS— XV. Outlines of a Grammar of the Malagasy Language. By HN Van der Tuuk.
Seite 249 - Pai-li-sura,* was very glad and sent envoys to go to the court along with the imperial envoy, and presented as tribute products of the country. " In the gth month of the year 1405 these envoys arrived at the capital; the emperor spoke in laudatory terms of their master, appointed him king of the country of Malacca, and gave him a commission, a seal, a suit of silk clothes, and a yellow umbrella, whilst Yin Ch'ing was ordered to go there again and bring all these presents.
Seite vi - Java, it allows us also to draw a fair inference as to the kind of Hinduism at one time • prevailing in other parts of Malaysia less favoured by historical records, where ruthless Islam has since obliterated to a great extent the traces of other creeds, traditions, and institutions. It is, indeed, essential to a proper understanding and estimate of the religious and social condition of the various and wide-spread Malayan...
Seite 139 - Arabs (4), hearing of this, sent a bag with gold to be laid down within her frontiers: the people who passed that road avoided it in walking and it remained there for three years.
Seite 164 - Bretschneider. — ON THE KNOWLEDGE POSSESSED BY THE ANCIENT CHINESE OF THE ARABS AND ARABIAN COLONIES, and other Western Countries mentioned in Chinese Books.
Seite 146 - The customs and products of this land are not much known, but as a rule the barbarian countries over the sea produce many rare and valuable things, which fetch a high price in China.
Seite 178 - There is a sort of men who paint, on paper, men, birds, animals, insects and so on ; the paper is like a scroll, and is fixed between two wooden rollers three feet high ; at one side these rollers are level with the paper, whilst they protrude at the other side. The man squats down on the ground and places the picture before him, unrolling one part after the other, and turning it towards the spectators, whilst in the native language, and in a loud voice, he gives an explanation of every part ; the...
Seite 172 - ... and begin stabbing, thus deciding the question by violence. If one is killed, the other runs away and conceals himself for three days, after which time he has no more to account for his opponent's life. When, on the contrary, a murderer is caught on the spot, he is also stabbed to death immediately.
Seite 195 - Tau-ming, f who had lived there a long time and roamed over the sea, followed by several thousand men from Fukien and Canton, was taken by them as their chief.
Seite 260 - Chuang, further inform us, that this incense was obtained in all countries south of China by felling the old trees and leaving them to decay, when after some time only the heart, the knots, and some other hard parts remained. The product was known under different names, according to its quality or shape, and in addition to the names given above, we find ^ fjj.