A Visit to the Indian Archipelago, in H.M. Ship Mæander: With Portions of the Private Journal of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B.R. Bentley, 1853 |
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Abang Admiralty alligator anchor appearance arms arrived attacked Australia Bandar Kassim Barram bird boats body Borneo Brooke's Bruné Burns canoes Cape York Captain Owen Stanley captured chief Chinese civilised coast of Borneo Cobourg peninsula Court crew crime Datu deponent Dyaks English European feet fleet friends give Government Guinea harbour head Hobart Town honour inhabitants interesting jungle kangaroo Kanowit Kayan killed kris Labuan land Louisiade Archipelago Lundu Malays mast-head miles Nakodah natives never Norfolk Island Orang Kaya Owen Stanley Pangeran party passed pinnace piracy pirates plundered Port Essington Port Jackson prahus present Rajah Rattlesnake reefs revenue river round Sadong sail saith Sakarran Sambas Sambas River Sarawak savage seen Serebas settlement Sheriff ship shoals Sibuyows side Sincapore Sir James Brooke slave spear Sultan survey Sydney Tamawan took Torres Straits trade trees tribe vegetables vessels wife young
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241. oldal - Pine (Altingia excelsa) is seen 100 feet above the other forest trees, and resembles the Norway spruce, but its tiers are more distant. Its timber is not of good quality, as it soon rots when exposed to the weather, and the teredo, or auger worm, makes fearful ravages in the fences made of this timber, which seldom stand three years.
111. oldal - For they that led us away captive, required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness : Sing us one of the songs of Sion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
148. oldal - The woman was still young and beautiful ; she had no children. They said to me that a woman who, under such circumstances, suffered herself to be killed, had indeed loved her husband. She intended to accompany him on his...
151. oldal - About the middle of the space before the house, they had erected two scaffoldings or platforms of bamboo, of the length of a man, and three feet above the ground. Under these they had dug a small pit to receive the water and the blood that should flow. In a small house at one side, and opposite these frame-works, were two others entirely similar.
241. oldal - Cabbage-tree, rise perpendicularly, in the centre of the crest. In this state they are used for making brooms; those still unprotruded and remaining enclosed within the sheaths of the older leaves, form a white mass, as thick as a man's arm; they are eaten raw, boiled, or pickled. In a raw state, they taste like a nut, and boiled they resemble artichoke bottoms. The seeds furnish food for the Wood-quest, a large species of pigeon
151. oldal - ... returned to her place. They took off her rings. She crossed her arms on her breast. Two women took her by the arms. Her brother (this time a brother by adoption) placed himself before her, and asked her with a soft voice if she was determined to die, and when she gave a sign of assent with her head, he asked her forgiveness for being obliged to kill her. At once he seized his kris and stabbed her on the left side of the breast, but not deeply, so that she remained standing.
9. oldal - Yes ! he hath triumph'd ! — while his lips relate The sacred story of his Saviour's fate, While to the search of that tumultuous horde He opens wide the Everlasting Word, And bids the Soul drink deep of Wisdom there, In fond devotion, and in fervent prayer, In speechless awe the wonder-stricken throng Check their rude feasting and their barbarous song: Around his steps the gathering myriads crowd...
151. oldal - He afterwards powdered it with flour of coloured rice, and chopped flowers, and placed it on dry mats. " Women brought out the wife of the gusti with her arms crossed.
151. oldal - ... flowers. They then brought a white net. The priest took a silver cup filled with holy water (called chor) on which he strewed flowers. He first sprinkled the deceased with this water, and then poured it through the net on the body, -which he blessed, praying, singing, and making various mystical and symbolical motions. He afterwards powdered it with flour of coloured rice, and chopped flowers, and placed it on dry mats.
9. oldal - Have reft away, for ever reft, from him, The liquid accent, and the buoyant limb : Yet still within him aspirations swell Which time corrupts not, sorrow cannot quell — The changeless Zeal, which on, from land to land, Speeds the faint foot, and nerves the...