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Anthelmintic appear ashes astringent Baggalen Bali Banjar Banyu-mas bark Basaltes Batavia Batur Brucea calcareous Cavern central ranges Cheribon considerable covered crater daar dadu declivities descending dezelve direction discharge distance district diuretic door doubtful Genus doubtful East Eastern Eastward eene elevation emollient employed eruption exhibited extensive foot fragments geene Genus doubtful Genus doubtful Genus gradually Gunung hills inhabitants Island Java Javaan Javanese Javanese Language Kadilangu Karang-bollong Karang-kobar Kawi language lava mentioned miles Mountain of Tagal natives nearly niet North Northern numerous observed Ocean onder Passir peninsula piles plants Polypodium ditto Polyscias portion Princes principal Progo province Rajah Rangka resembling ridges river Serayu Rivulet road rocks Rumphius Segalo Serayu shore sides situated soil South Southern species stone Sumbawa Sumbing Sundoro Surakarta tion tract Tufa valley various vegetation village volcanic vorst Wayang West Western whole wierd zeer zich zoon zyne
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Стр. 84 - Europeans so frequently confounded ; the latter have been stationary at least as long as we have known them, while the slightest impulse seems sufficient to give a determination to the Japanese character, which would progressively improve until it attained the same height of civilization with the European.
Стр. 84 - ... found in Europe. For a people who have had very few, if any external aids, the Japanese cannot but rank high in the scale of civilization. The traits of a vigorous mind are displayed in their proficiency in the sciences, and particularly in metaphysics and judicial astrology.
Стр. 14 - Pekate no vestige of a house is left ; twenty-six of the people, who were at Sumbawa at the time, are the whole of the population who have escaped. From the most particular inquiries I have been able to make, there were certainly not fewer than 12,000 individuals in Tomboro and Pekate' at the time of the eruption, of whom only five or six survive.
Стр. 25 - Java ; the type and emblem oi •a. religion no longer acknowledged, and scarcely known among them by name : when he reflects upon that boundless profusion of active, unwearied skill and patience, the noble spirit of generous emulation, the patronage and encouragement which the arts and sciences must have received, and the inexhaustible wealth and resources which the Javanese of those times must have possessed...
Стр. 82 - Kämpfer, whose account of Japan is perhaps one of the best books of the kind that ever was written, considering the circumstances under which he was sent. I am assured that there is not a misrepresentation throughout ; he was a man of minute accuracy and felicity of talent, who saw every thing as it was, and not through the mist or medium of any preconception. The Japanese observe of him, that he is, in his History, " the very apostle of their faith," from whose works alone they know even their...
Стр. 86 - ... novelty, and warm in their attachments ; open to strangers, and, abating the restrictions of their political institutions, a people who seem inclined to throw themselves into the hands of any nation of superior intelligence. They have at the same time a great contempt and disregard of every thing below their own standard of morals and habits, as instanced in the case of the Chinese.
Стр. 49 - Alang grass, and scraping the skin of the hands of the child and of the mother with it, as well as the ground, pronounces a short benediction. When a marriage is agreed upon, the bride and bridegroom being brought before the Dukun within the house, in the first place, bow with respect towards the south — then to the fire-place — then to the earth, and lastly, on looking up to the upper story of the house, where the implements of husbandry are placed, perform the same ceremony. The parties then...
Стр. 46 - Pasuraun and partly in that of Probolingo, known by the name of the Teng'gar Mountains, we find the remnant of a people still following the Hindu worship, who merit attention, not only on account of their being the depositaries of the last trace of that worship discovered at this day on Java, but as exhibiting a peculiar singularity and simplicity of character. " These people occupy about forty villages, scattered along this range of hills in the neighbourhood of the Sandy Sea, and are partly under...
Стр. 1 - ... occurred within their own knowledge. From their replies, the narrative drawn up by Mr. Assey, and printed in the ninth volume of the Batavian Transactions, was collected ; the following is an extract from that paper. " ' The first explosions were heard on this island (Java) in the evening of the 5th of April : they were noticed in every quarter, and continued at intervals until the following day. The noise was, in the first instance...