Caut-chouc:
or elastic gum.
Cements.
Champaka:
flower.
Character:
difference in respect of it, between the Malays and
other Sumatrans.
Characters:
of Rejang, Batta, and Lampong languages.
Charms.
Chastity.
Chess:
game of, Malayan terms.
Child-bearing.
Children:
treatment of.
Chinese:
colonists.
Circumcision.
Cloth:
manufacture of.
Clothing:
materials of.
Coal.
Cock-fighting:
strong propensity to this sport.
Matches.
Coconut-tree:
an important object of cultivation.
Does not bear fruit in the hill country.
Codes:
of laws.
Remarks on.
Coins:
current in Sumatra.
Commerce.
Company (English East India):
its influence.
Permission given to it to settle a factory at Achin.
Compass:
irregularity of, noticed.
Compensation:
for murder, termed bangun.
Complexion:
fairness of, comparatively with other Indians.
Darkness of, not dependent on climate.
Confinement:
modes of.
Contracts: made with the chiefs of the country, for obliging their dependants to plant pepper.
Conversion:
to religion of Mahomet, period of.
Cookery.
Copper.
Rich mine of.
Coral rock.
Corallines:
collection of, in the possession of Mr. John Griffiths.
Cosmetic:
used, and mode of preparing it.
Cotton:
two species of, cultivated.
Courtship.
Crisp (Mr. John).
Cultivation:
of rice.
Curry:
dish or mode of cookery so called.
Custard-apple.
Cycas circinalis:
(a palm-fern confounded with the sago-tree) described.
Dalrymple (Mr. Alexander).
Dammar:
a species of resin or turpentine.
Dancing:
amusement of.
Dare (Lieutenant Hastings).
Journal of his expedition to the Serampei and Sungei-tenang
countries.
Datu:
title of.
Debts:
and debtors, laws respecting.
Deer:
diminutive species of.
Deity:
name for the, borrowed by the Rejangs from the Malays.
Dice.
Diseases:
modes of curing.
Diversion:
of tossing a ball.
Divorces:
laws respecting.
Dragons’-blood:
a drug, how procured.
Dress:
description of man’s and woman’s.
Dupati:
nature of title.
Durian:
fruit.
Dusuns:
or villages, description of.
Duyong:
or sea-cow.
Dye-stuffs.
Ears:
ceremony of boring.
Earthenware.
Earth-oil.