Golden Chersonese

Isabella Bird

• Editore: Routledge
• Anno: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781136200984
• Edizione: 1
• Argomento: Scienze sociali
• Categoria: Antropologia

Even in the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Isabelle Bird, by then an established travel writer, was able to refer to the Malay Peninsula as an almost unknown land. Travelling back from Japan, the intrepid travel writer stopped off in Singapore where the British Colonial Secretary offered her the opportunity to vist the native states of the Western Archipelago. Because she had such a good introduction, she went and was taken everywhere by local officials. And so Miss Bird's journey was less rugged than her many other trips, but, rather more comfortable and well connected, she enjoyed it immensely.

INDEX.

ABDULLAH, his two sons, 276, 281

Abdulsamat, Sultan, 216; his steam launch, 224; his three houses, 230; council of state, 231; harem, 233; gift, 234

Ah Loi, the enterprising Chinaman at Kwala Lumpor, 220; entertains Sir F. A. Weld, 221

Alligators, 166

Amok, “running amuck,” 165; supposed origin of meaning, 355–357

Ampagnan tin mine near Kwala Lumpor, 208

Anamese children, 99; town, 100; physical appearance of the adults, 104

Anamite river-dwellings, 101

Ant-town, an, 196; the quarriers and labourers, 197, 198

Apes used to gather coco-nuts, 301, 319, 333

BABAS, the, 17

Baba, his Hadji dress, 147

Beri-Beri disease, the, 284

Bernam river, the, 244

Betel-nut, the, 180; how prepared, 181

Biggs, Rev., colonial chaplain at Malacca, 126

Birch, Mr., his murder at Passir Salah, 270

Birds, the, of the Peninsula, 10, 11

Bird-scaring, 341.

Blachang, a Malay condiment, 180

Buffaloes, water, 274

Bukit Berapit pass, 350, 351

Bukit Gantang lotus lake, 352

Bukit Jugra, 226; reception by the Sultan Abdulsamat, 230

Burdon, Bishop and Mrs., 32, 36

Butterflies, 350

CANGUE, punishment of the, 68, 79

Canton, first impressions of, 43, 46; streets, 46; drains and barricades, 47; watchmen, 47; constabulary, 48; public buildings, temples, 49; signboards, 49; dwelling-houses, 50; ghastly gifts, 50; junks and boats, 55; city of house-boats, 56; the Five-storied Pagoda, 58; the Wall, 59; Tartar City, 60; street sights (and sounds, 61; costumes, 62; food and restaurants, 63; bridal procession, 64; the “Beggars’ Square,” 64; temples and worship, 65; crippled feet, 66; the Naam-Hoi prison, 67–80; the Ma T’au, 80–85.

Capitans China, the, 190, 191

Chinese, the, in the Peninsula, 17

Cholen, an Anamese town, 100; burial-ground, 103

Choquan, a Cochin - Chinese village, 96; interior of a house, 97–99

Cobra, a, 223

Coffee-planting in Pêrak, 357

DATU BANDAR, 202; his house, 202, 203

Debt-slavery, 358–360, 370–379

Dindings islands, the, 249; scene of Mr. Lloyd’s murder, 250

Douglas, Mr. Bloomfield, Resident at Klang, 217

Dragon-Play, a Chinese, 201

Dris, Rajah, 320; his house, 325

EBLIS, the small ape at Kwala Kangsa, 307; his illness, 335, 346; recovery, death, 366

Elephants, “at home,” 278; ugliness, 297; mode of riding, 298; a Royal one, 310; described, 316; swimming the Pêrak...