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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... God nor in any future world , is enough to move a heart of stone . " This is what we read amongst other things in a painstaking geographical description in the " Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch - Indie " of 1839. The " striking " aspect ...
... God nor in any future world , is enough to move a heart of stone . " This is what we read amongst other things in a painstaking geographical description in the " Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch - Indie " of 1839. The " striking " aspect ...
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... gods who were reverenced there . Desirous of avoiding even the remotest contact with any strange gods , they determined to leave Java ; accordingly they departed and going eastwards they reached Bali , where they decided to establish ...
... gods who were reverenced there . Desirous of avoiding even the remotest contact with any strange gods , they determined to leave Java ; accordingly they departed and going eastwards they reached Bali , where they decided to establish ...
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... god but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet " and in the abstention from pork and submission to circumcision . * by the gods how to instruct the people in their religious worship . These two first teachers received the name of Manko ...
... god but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet " and in the abstention from pork and submission to circumcision . * by the gods how to instruct the people in their religious worship . These two first teachers received the name of Manko ...
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... gods are present everywhere , they are all - powerful and exercise a direct influence over every act of their lives . " If a child smiles in its sleep it is a token that its guardian angel is watching over it ; abundant rains and ...
... gods are present everywhere , they are all - powerful and exercise a direct influence over every act of their lives . " If a child smiles in its sleep it is a token that its guardian angel is watching over it ; abundant rains and ...
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... gods . On this or similar occasions the religious ceremonies connected with the festivities , are presided over by the “ Pemangkoes ” ( village - priests ) and the Hindu priests keep in the background . A few of the religious practices ...
... gods . On this or similar occasions the religious ceremonies connected with the festivities , are presided over by the “ Pemangkoes ” ( village - priests ) and the Hindu priests keep in the background . A few of the religious practices ...
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7th battalion advance ammunition amongst Ampenan Antjar artillery attack balé Bali Balinese bamboo Batavia bivouac Borneo Brahmin Bugis Captain carried cavalry coast column command Commander-in-chief convicts death dessas Dewa Dewa-temple Djilantik East enemy European expedition fire force gods Government ground guns Gusti high road Hindu honour horses Indian infantry inhabitants island Java K'Toet Kaleh kampong Karang Karangassim klian krisses land Lawick letter Liefrinck Lieutenant Lindgreen Lombock Macassar Madé Madurese Malay mandoors Mataram Mataram-Poeri mètres morning mountain artillery Narmada native soldiers naval naval brigade night North occupied officers once padanda Pagasangan poenggawas poeri Praja prince prince's Prins Hendrik Raden Rajah reached received remained Resident retreat rice Salamparang Sassak chiefs Sassaks sawah section of engineers section of mountain Segov sent ships side soebak soon staff Sudras Sumbawa Surabaya Tandjong temple Tjakra Nagara troops walls West whilst Willemstijn wounded Zollinger
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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.