Quedah; or, Stray leaves from a journal in Malayan watersLongman, 1857 - 360 Seiten |
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... assured us , that as many as 4000 of these vessels had arrived during the past monsoon ; and , but for the Dutch interference and jealousy , many more would visit Singapore yearly . Skimming about amongst these vessels of curious forms ...
... assured us , that as many as 4000 of these vessels had arrived during the past monsoon ; and , but for the Dutch interference and jealousy , many more would visit Singapore yearly . Skimming about amongst these vessels of curious forms ...
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... assured me that the Malays would never voluntarily fight the " white men , Orang- putihs , " as we , of all Europeans , are styled par ex- cellence . It was quite possible , if we were very careless , that they would try and capture ...
... assured me that the Malays would never voluntarily fight the " white men , Orang- putihs , " as we , of all Europeans , are styled par ex- cellence . It was quite possible , if we were very careless , that they would try and capture ...
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... assured me that the performers were men of undoubted sanctity , having all made the pilgrimage to Mecca , and kissed the tomb of their prophet , without which qualification they could not take part in what the English seamen ...
... assured me that the performers were men of undoubted sanctity , having all made the pilgrimage to Mecca , and kissed the tomb of their prophet , without which qualification they could not take part in what the English seamen ...
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... assured me that it was the action of a prahu's oar in a rattan grummet . * At other times a rippling sound , such as water will make when running past any fixed object , was wafted on the night wind . " It is merely the tide running ...
... assured me that it was the action of a prahu's oar in a rattan grummet . * At other times a rippling sound , such as water will make when running past any fixed object , was wafted on the night wind . " It is merely the tide running ...
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... assured us , were very venomous , yet the reptiles were not above a foot or eighteen inches long , and about the girth of a man's little finger ; the greatest peculiarity being strong black markings about the body , which gave them an ...
... assured us , were very venomous , yet the reptiles were not above a foot or eighteen inches long , and about the girth of a man's little finger ; the greatest peculiarity being strong black markings about the body , which gave them an ...
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afterwards alligators amongst anchor appearance arms assured Bagoose Baju-Mira Barclay beautiful birds'-nests blockade boats Bounting brig British buffaloes bull called canoe Captain Warren capture chase chieftainess Chinese close cocoa-nut trees Conroy coxswain creatures creese crew Datoo Mahomet Alee deck Emerald escape evidently fancy fight fire forest fresh water fugitives gave gun-boat guns Haggi hands Hyacinth Inchi Laa islands Jadee Jadee's Jamboo jungle junk Kangah knew Lancavas look-out looked Malayan Malayia Malays midshipman miles monkeys musquitoes native nests nicodar night oars Orang-laut paddles Parlis Pat Conroy Penang pinnace pirates poor Portuguese prahus province Pulo Quedah Quetam Rajah rice river round sail sailors sampan scene seen serang Setouè ship shore Siamese Siamese army Singapore snakes soon spirit stockade Straits of Malacca strong Tamelan tide told Tom West Tonkoo Mahomet Touhan town unclean animal vessel whilst wild wind wretched
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Seite 277 - 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 51 - ... October, 1815. It will be remembered that her husband embarked for India the year before. Thus a critic of the time spake with more wisdom than he was aware of, when he wrote the following sentence as to her Rosalind. "Of her figure it would be unjust at present to speak. She appears to be far advanced in that state in which ladies wish to be who love their lords.
Seite 315 - There is a magnet-like attraction in These waters to the imaginative power, That links the viewless with the visible, And pictures things unseen. To realms beyond Yon highway of the world my fancy flies...
Seite 240 - These fugitives I believe to be identical with the Orang-laut, or Men of the Sea, spoken of by the earliest as well as modern writers when describing the different Malay races. Their proper home is in prahus, or canoes, although some of them occasionally settle upon the borders of the sea. Like the sons of Ishmael, their hand is against every man, and every man's hand against them.
Seite 243 - ... left unmentioned. On their manners and customs, I must needs be short, as only long acquaintance with their prejudices, and domestic feelings could afford a clue to the impulse of their actions. Of a Creator they have not the slightest comprehension, a fact so difficult to believe, when we find the most degraded of the human race in other quarters of the globe, have an intuitive idea of this unerring and primary truth imprinted on their minds, that I took the greatest care to find a slight image...
Seite 304 - As the light leaf, whose fall to ruin bears Some trembling insect's little world of cares, Descends m silence — while around waves on The mighty forest, reckless what is gone ! Such is man's doom ; and, ere an hour be flown, — Start not, thou trifler ! — such may be thine own.
Seite 315 - ... groves — the shores of conch and pearl, Where she will cast her anchor and reflect Her cabin-window lights on warmer waves, And under planets brighter than our own : The nights, of palmy isles, that she will see Lit boundless by the fire-fly — all the smells Of tropic fruits that will regale her — all The pomp of nature, .and the inspiriting Varieties of life she has to greet, Come swarming o'er the meditative mind.
Seite 294 - But it is strangely observable, that whilst they were loading their guns, they heard a voice in the sea, crying out, ' Come, help ! come, help ! a man overboard ! come, help ! ' This made them forthwith bring their ship to the wind, thinking to take the man up, but heard no more of him. Then they came on board of us to see if we had lost a man : but we, nor the other ship, had not a man wanting ; for, upon strict examination, we found that in all three ships we had our complement of men, which made...
Seite 245 - how miserable," but of this the objects of their commiseration were not aware ; in them they have provided all their wants ; their children sport on the shore in search of shell fish at low water ; and during high water they may be seen climbing the mangrove branches, and dashing from thence into the water, with all the life and energy of children of a colderclime, at once affording a proof that even they have their joys.
Seite 242 - They neither dig nor plant, and yet live nearly independent of their fellow-men ; for to them, the staple of life in the East, rice, is a luxury. Tobacco they procure by the barter of fish, and a few marketables collected from the forests and coral reefs. Of esculent roots, they have the prioh and kalana, both bulbous, and not unlike coarse yarns.