Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China and Australasia, Volume 18Wm. H. Allen & Company, 1824 |
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... islands of the Pacific , and thence to the shores of China and Japan , has in all ages excited the attention , and attracted the cupidity of more civilized nations , whose valuable and peculiar productions contributed to swell the ...
... islands of the Pacific , and thence to the shores of China and Japan , has in all ages excited the attention , and attracted the cupidity of more civilized nations , whose valuable and peculiar productions contributed to swell the ...
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... island till the establishment of Mahome- danism there in the fifteenth century . At what period the people of Menang- kabau embraced the doctrines of the pro- phet does not appear , and would form an interesting subject of inquiry . The ...
... island till the establishment of Mahome- danism there in the fifteenth century . At what period the people of Menang- kabau embraced the doctrines of the pro- phet does not appear , and would form an interesting subject of inquiry . The ...
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... island are distinguished for more spirit and enterprize ; but the people in that quarter who more peculiarly attract our interest are those of Bali , an island lying immediately east of Java , and who at the present day exhibit the ...
... island are distinguished for more spirit and enterprize ; but the people in that quarter who more peculiarly attract our interest are those of Bali , an island lying immediately east of Java , and who at the present day exhibit the ...
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... island of Celebes , we find the people of a still more enterprizing cha- racter ; the elective form of their govern- ment offers a singular anomaly among Asiatic states , and is not the least peculiar of their institutions . Bugguese ...
... island of Celebes , we find the people of a still more enterprizing cha- racter ; the elective form of their govern- ment offers a singular anomaly among Asiatic states , and is not the least peculiar of their institutions . Bugguese ...
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... islands is unfailing , and that pro- duce is only limited by the extent of the population . By means of the variety ... islands may become to China what America is already to the nations of Eu- rope . The superabundant and overflowing ...
... islands is unfailing , and that pro- duce is only limited by the extent of the population . By means of the variety ... islands may become to China what America is already to the nations of Eu- rope . The superabundant and overflowing ...
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