The History of Sumatra eBook

William Marsden
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 680 pages of information about The History of Sumatra.

The History of Sumatra eBook

William Marsden
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 680 pages of information about The History of Sumatra.

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.

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