Miscellaneous Papers Relating to Indo-China, Band 1Reinhold Rost Trübner & Company, 1886 - 318 Seiten |
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Seite 174 - When nearly in a dying state he seized a spear made of a supple wood, which would have withstood the strength of the stoutest man, and shivered it in pieces ; in the words of the narrator, he broke it as if it had been a carrot.
Seite 113 - when a man becomes infirm and weary of the " world, he is said to invite his own children to " eat him in the season when salt and limes " are cheapest. He then ascends a tree, round " which his friends and offspring assemble, and " as they shake the tree, join in a funeral " dirge, the import of which is, ' The season " is come, the fruit is ripe, and it must de" scend.' The victim descends, and those that " are nearest and dearest to him deprive him " of life and devour his remains in a solemn...
Seite 175 - Dr. Abel with the details, stated that the creature was a full head taller than any man on board, measuring seven feet in what might be called his ordinary standing posture, and eight feet when suspended for the purpose of being skinned.
Seite 173 - His motion on the ground was plainly not his natural mode of progression, for, even when assisted by his hands or a stick, it was slow and vacillating ; it was necessary to see him amongst trees in order to estimate his agility and strength. On being driven to a small clump...
Seite 95 - Pantiins the Malays often recite, in alternate contest, for several hours ; the preceding Pantun always furnishing the catch-word to that which follows, until one of the parties be silenced or vanquished, or, as the Malays express it, be dead (suda matt).
Seite 113 - practice such customs as the following ; whoever " of the community, be it man or woman, happens to "fall sick, his most familiar friends, if it is a man, " kill him, saying that by his pining in sickness,
Seite 89 - The various dialects of this speech, though they have a wonderful accordance in many essential properties, have experienced those changes which separation, time, and accident produce, and, in respect to the purposes of intercourse, may be classed into several languages, differing considerably from each other.
Seite 176 - The palms of the hands are very long, are quite naked from the wrists, and are of the colour of the face. Their backs, to the last joint of the fingers, are covered with hair, which inclines a little backwards towards the wrists, and then turns directly upwards.
Seite 2 - The river is about 3 i0 yards wide ; both shores are muddy, and have swampy places, which are covered with jungle. This continues for three miles up the river. Half a mile within the jungle, the paddy grounds commence. Seven miles on the river from the Qualla is Allestar, where the king resides. All vessels that pass the bar can go to Allestar ; the river is narrow but deep ; the country level, but clear and cultivated, having a fine rich soil. A little above Allestar the ground rises, the river...
Seite 228 - Rajah's hall, and asked his opponent to lift it, and to allow their claims to be decided by the greatest strength displayed in this feat. The Kling champion assented, and, after several failures, succeeded in raising it as high as his knee, after which he immediately let it fall. The story then says that Badang, having taken up the stone, poised it easily several times, and then threw it out into the mouth of the river, and this is the rock which is at this day visible at the point of Singhapura,...