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Common terms and phrasesafterwards Amboyna Amboynese anchor appearance Batavia belonging Boeni Borneo Bouginese cafe called Cape Captain Celebes Ceram CHAP chief clove-tree cloves coast colour Company Company's Crain danger ditto Dutch Dutch mile east eastward Europeans fame fathoms feet fifty five forty four Gentoos governor half past Hitoe hundred India inhabitants island Japara Java Javanese junior merchant king of Boni king of Goach kingdom land latitude leagues Leytimor likewise lying Macassers monsoon morning mountains native negree night nutmegs o'clock palisadoed pany Pleuren Portuguese pounds pounds weight princes produce province regent resident rice river rixdollars road Rotterdam round sago sailed Samarang shew ship shore side Sourabaya Spanish dollars steered strait Sumbawa Surat tain thousand gilders tion town trade trees Valentyn vessels voyage Wadjo wall weather whence wild hogs wind wine wood Popular passagesPage 257 - We procured plenty of frefh provifions all the while we lay here at a reafcnable rate ; the beef is excellent ; but it would be difficult to procure enough of it for a fquadron. Rice may be had in any quantity, fo may fowls and fruit : there are alfo abundance of wild hogs in the woods, which may be purchafed at a low price, as the natives, being Mahometans, never eat them. Page 135 - ... many of these poor wretches are torn in pieces, or dreadfully wounded, by the enraged animals. • When every thing is in readiness, the cage of the buffalo is first opened at the top, and his back is rubbed with certain leaves, which have the singular quality of occasioning an intolerable degree of pain, and which, from the use they are applied to, have been called buffalo-leaves by our people. The door of the cage is... Page 359 - If they want to build a new houfe, or a new baleeuw, which is a kind of councilhall, they muft equally firft go and fetch fome human heads. They are not to be broken of this horrid cuftom ; and it is the only objection they make to embracing the Chriftian religion, that they muft then abandon it ; for no one attains a higher degree of fame and... Page 270 - I would, as foon as the wind would permit, in defiance of all their menaces, and all their force, go and anchor clofe to the town ; that if at laft I fhould find myfelf unable to compel them to comply with requifitions, the reafonablenefs of which could not be controverted, I would run the fhip aground under their walls... Page 137 - ... is then given to him, and he is conducted to the field of combat. ' The tiger, who has, for a long time, been kept fasting, falls upon the man with the greatest fury, and generally strikes him down at once, with his paw, but if he be fortunate enough to avoid this, and to wound the animal, so that it quits him, the emperor then commands him to attack the tiger ; and the man is then generally the victim : and even if he ultimately succeed in killing his ferocious antagonist, he must suffer death,... Page 134 - ... should be guilty of it, or receive gratification from a display so repugnant to humanity. " When a tiger," says this voyager, " and a buffalo are to fight together for the amusement of the court, they are both brought upon the field of combat in large cages. The field is surrounded by a body of Javanese, four deep, with levelled pikes, in order that if the creatures endeavour to break through, the... Page 336 - ... about were more and more eradicated, the government at Batavia began to think on the means of giving the Amboynefe an equivalent for the diminution of that production, as the crop of cloves brought but little money into circulation, in prow portion to the number of inhabitants. Page 65 - With all this, MELK could neither read nor write ; but having a good memory, he had the whole in his head of, what was necessary for the due management of his extensive concerns, for which any other would require a number of books, and a great deal of writing. Page 358 - ... a head of an enemy which he has cut off: in order to obtain this qualification for matrimony, fix, eight, or ten of them go together to a ftrange part, where they... Page 288 - China, which is then placed in their temple, and the old one of the former year is taken away, and carried back to China ; and they never begin to land any part of the cargo until the image of this idol, which is made of gold... References to this bookFrom Google ScholarAn Historic Skeleton from the Slave Lodge at VergelegenJC Sealy, AG Morris, R Armstrong, A Markell, C Schrire - 1993 - Goodwin Series Building on the Past: The Architecture and Archaeology of VergelegenAnn B Markell - 1993 - Goodwin Series 5 April 1952 SA TYDSKRIF VIR GENEESKUNDE 297DM Macrae, S Mr Med Record, JA Graham, AM Fleming, D Macauley, WG Clark - Lancet References from web pagesMughal Nobles, Indian Merchants and the Beginning of British ... JSTOR: Mughal Nobles, Indian Merchants and the Beginning of ... 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