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CHAPTER XXI. 



Country about Pedir — ""White Lions" — The rajah's habits — 

 A decision— Ornaments for the ear — Female curiosity — 

 The rajah's horses — War between the rajah of Acheen 

 and the rajah of Trumony — A native's account of the 

 quarrel —Purchase of betel-nut — The Areka-nut — Trade 

 in that article — Anecdote — A Chittagong brig — Dried fish 

 — Beautiful appearance of the Golden Mountain — Assem- 

 blage of the mountains — Tornados — The fire king and his 

 demons — Yamora — Burial-ground — Large tree — Small 

 crabs — Game called Mein Achu — Leprosy — Party of na- 

 tives — The Viverra musanga — Applications for medicine — 

 Rajah of Putu — His retinue — Object of his visit. 



The country about Pedir, as far as I had an 0}d- 

 portunity of seeing it, was very picturesque, 

 abounding in a luxuriant, natural vegetation, 

 as well as in a state of cultivation. The native 

 habitations are almost hidden by cocoa-nut, 

 plantain, areka, eju, jack, and other trees ; fra- 

 grant odours were exhaled from the multitude 

 of flowers which strewed the surface of the ground ; 



