With the Dutch in the East: An Outline of the Military Operations in Lombock, 1894, Giving Also a Popular Account of the Native Characteristics, Architecture, Methods of Irrigation, Agricultural Pursuits, Folklore, Religious Customs, and a History of the Introduction of Islamism and Hinduism Into the IslandLuzac & Company, 1897 - 365 pages |
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... body against the rulers , for they now well knew what was in store for them . 39 They were no longer going to submit to seeing their fellow country- men killed off like chickens ; and besides , the princes had expressed their ...
... body against the rulers , for they now well knew what was in store for them . 39 They were no longer going to submit to seeing their fellow country- men killed off like chickens ; and besides , the princes had expressed their ...
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... bodies . tell their own tale too plainly . " The poor little children are the most to be pitied ; owing to the misery and lack of food of these past few months , hardly anything is left of the poor little mites but skin and bone . " In ...
... bodies . tell their own tale too plainly . " The poor little children are the most to be pitied ; owing to the misery and lack of food of these past few months , hardly anything is left of the poor little mites but skin and bone . " In ...
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... bodies display various shades of brown ; further on a solitary yellow silk turban of some Musulman is distinguish- able and rising high above the heads of a group of women , whose dark faces are partially concealed by bright coloured ...
... bodies display various shades of brown ; further on a solitary yellow silk turban of some Musulman is distinguish- able and rising high above the heads of a group of women , whose dark faces are partially concealed by bright coloured ...
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... body of men , for who would dare to oppose them in the open field ? Alas ! even he himself was not proof against assassination . The different bands had contributed gay music , friendly hands had reached forth fragrant bouquets and ...
... body of men , for who would dare to oppose them in the open field ? Alas ! even he himself was not proof against assassination . The different bands had contributed gay music , friendly hands had reached forth fragrant bouquets and ...
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... body of the refractory pikol and carries it bodily on to the gangway , when all the others follow without any further trouble . The next morning , 1st July , the rest of the artillery leave on the steamers Graaf van Bijlandt and the ...
... body of the refractory pikol and carries it bodily on to the gangway , when all the others follow without any further trouble . The next morning , 1st July , the rest of the artillery leave on the steamers Graaf van Bijlandt and the ...
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Page 120 - I know surpassing in the labour that has been bestowed upon it any tract of equal extent in the most civilized countries of Europe. I rode through this strange garden utterly amazed, and hardly able to realize the fact, that in this remote 'and little known island...
Page 48 - And they encamped under the tall waringin-trecs that border all the roads about Mataram, and with blazing fires frighted away the ghouls and evil spirits that nightly haunt the gloomy avenues. In the morning a great procession was formed to conduct the Rajah to the mountain ; and the royal princes and relations of the Rajah mounted their black horses, whose tails swept the ground. They used no saddle or stirrups, but sat upon a cloth of gay colors ; the bits were of silver, and the bridles of many-colored...
Page 47 - ... of yellow wood were changed for ivory, and those of ivory were changed for gold, and diamonds and emeralds sparkled on many of them; and he knew very well which way the tribute-rice went. But as he could not prove it he kept silence, and resolved in his own heart some day to have a census taken, so that he might know the number of his people, and not be cheated out of more rice than was just and reasonable. But the difficulty was how to get this census. He could not go himself into every village...
Page 50 - Rajah spoke again and told them, — that the great spirit had commanded that twelve sacred krisses should be made, and that to make them every village and every district must send a bundle of needles — a needle for every head in the village. And when any grievous disease appeared in any village, one of the sacred krisses should be sent there ; and if every house in that village had sent the right number of needles, the disease would immediately cease ; but if the numbei of needles sent had not...
Page 47 - ... sure of this, no one must know that there was any census taken at all. This was a very hard problem; and the rajah thought and thought, as hard as a Malay rajah can be expected to think, but could not solve it: and so he was very unhappy, and did nothing but smoke and chew betel with his favorite wife, and eat scarcely anything; and even when he went to the cock-fight did not seem to care whether his best birds won or lost. For several days he remained in this sad state, and all ' the court were...
Page 121 - ... countries of Europe. I rode through this strange garden utterly amazed, and hardly able to realize the fact, that in this remote and little known island, from which all Europeans except a few traders at the port are jealously excluded, many hundreds of square miles of irregularly undulating country have been so skilfully terraced and levelled, and so permeated by artificial channels, that every portion of it can be irrigated and dried at pleasure.
Page 48 - ... eat and sleep at the close of each day. And when all was ready, the princes and priests and chief men came again to the Rajah to tell him what had been done, and to ask him when he would go up the mountain. And he fixed a day, and ordered every man of rank and authority to accompany him, to do honor to the great spirit who had bid him undertake the journey, and to show how willingly they obeyed his commands.