QuedahOxford University Press, 1857 - 360 Seiten |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 41
Seite
... once the falsehood of those accusations which made the Company's Roj so unpopular here , and hastened its fall . The acuteness with which he has discerned the difference between the cha- racter of the Mohammedan and that of the Hindú ...
... once the falsehood of those accusations which made the Company's Roj so unpopular here , and hastened its fall . The acuteness with which he has discerned the difference between the cha- racter of the Mohammedan and that of the Hindú ...
Seite 25
... once into the rivers with their light vessels , they stockaded the mouths ; and knowing that at that season our men - of - war could not approach close enough to injure them , and that open ships ' boats could not live off the coast ...
... once into the rivers with their light vessels , they stockaded the mouths ; and knowing that at that season our men - of - war could not approach close enough to injure them , and that open ships ' boats could not live off the coast ...
Seite 36
... once , and after every preparation had been made for a sudden action with war - prahus , I sat down with Jamboo , and my serang , Jadee , to glean in- formation and pick up Malay . To my inquiry , through the interpreter , as to the ...
... once , and after every preparation had been made for a sudden action with war - prahus , I sat down with Jamboo , and my serang , Jadee , to glean in- formation and pick up Malay . To my inquiry , through the interpreter , as to the ...
Seite 37
... once , girded up his loins , gave his head - dress a still more ferocious cock , and then baring his arms , with a long Illanoon creese in one hand and a short " badi , " or stabbing knife , in the other , he enacted a savage pantomime ...
... once , girded up his loins , gave his head - dress a still more ferocious cock , and then baring his arms , with a long Illanoon creese in one hand and a short " badi , " or stabbing knife , in the other , he enacted a savage pantomime ...
Seite 52
... fruit , as they were poisonous . Having bathed , and washed their clothes over once or twice , by way of a jollification , and walked up and down the beaches until tired , one of WITH GROUND - NUTS . 53 the old sailors expressed.
... fruit , as they were poisonous . Having bathed , and washed their clothes over once or twice , by way of a jollification , and walked up and down the beaches until tired , one of WITH GROUND - NUTS . 53 the old sailors expressed.
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
alligators amongst anchor armed blockade boats Bounting brig British called canoe Captain Warren capture chase Chinese close cloth cocoa-nut trees coloured coxswain creese crew crown 8vo Datoo Mahomet Alee deck Dutch English escape evidently fight fire forest fresh fugitives gave gun-boat guns Haggi hands Hyacinth Inchi Laa India islands Jadee Jadee's Jamboo jungle junk Kangah knew Lancavas land look Malacca Malayan Malayia Malays midshipman miles morocco musquitoes native nests nicodar night oars ORANG-LAUTS paddles Parlis Pat Conroy Penang pinnace pirates Plates poor Portuguese Post 8vo prahus province Pulo Quedah Quetam Rajah rice river round sail sailors sampan scene seamen Second Edition seen serang Setouè SHERARD OSBORN ship Siamese Siamese army Singapore slaves soon spirit stockade Straits of Malacca strong Tamelan Teda tion told Tom West town Untoo vessel vols whilst wind women wood Woodcuts
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 16 - Maunder's Treasury of Natural History ; Or, a Popular Dictionary of Animated Nature : In which the Zoological Characteristics that distinguish the different Classes, Genera, and Species, are combined with a variety of interesting Information illustrative of the Habits, Instincts, and General Economy of the Animal Kingdom.
Seite 295 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day. We stuck, nor breath nor motion ; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
Seite 23 - Sharon Turner's History of the AngloSaxons, from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest.
Seite 9 - The Englishman's Greek Concordance of the New Testament : Being an Attempt at a Verbal Connexion between the Greek and the English Texts ; including a Concordance to the Proper Names, with Indexes, GreekEnglish and English-Greek. New Edition, with a new Index. Royal 8vo. price 42s. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance...
Seite 14 - Encyclopaedia of Plants; comprising the Specific Character, Description, Culture, History, &c. of all the Plants found in Great Britain. With upwards of 12,000 Woodcuts. 8vo.
Seite 6 - Blair's Chronological and Historical Tables, from the Creation to the present time : With Additions and Corrections from the most authentic Writers ; including the Computation of St. Paul, as connecting the Period from the Exode to the Temple.
Seite 15 - Mrs. Marcet's Conversations on Chemistry, in which the Elements of that Science are familiarly explained and illustrated by Experiments.
Seite 14 - Britannicum abridged : Containing the Hardy Trees and Shrubs of Great Britain, Native and Foreign, Scientifically and Popularly Described ; with their Propagation, Culture, and Uses in the Arts ; and with Engravings of nearly all the Species.
Seite 7 - The Cabinet Lawyer; a Popular Digest of the Laws of England, Civil, Criminal, and Constitutional. Twenty-Fifth Edition, corrected and extended. Fcp. 8vo.
Seite 8 - A Dictionary of Practical Medicine : Comprising General Pathology, the Nature and Treatment of Diseases, Morbid Structures, and the Disorders especially incidental to Climates, to Sex, and to the different Epochs of Life; with numerous approved Formulae of the Medicines recommended.