COftN. — Population* -85 



*tiisfied, lie addressed his daughter Fatima. and 

 enquired if an v remained uncooked; — she, supposing 

 that all had been dressed, replied in the negative. 

 After dinner, Mahomed went to the kitchen and there 

 found a large joint of the meat tying uneooked; feel- 

 ing angry at the disappointment he and his guests 

 had met with, he pronounced the flesh of the hog to 

 be hilvtim (f-irbiddcn) thenceforward. 



The Samsams in Province Wellesley are partial 

 to pork. They hunt the wild hog by dogs, either 

 spearing him or drawing him into a rattan trap \ which 

 last, being attached to a branch of a tree bent down for 

 tin purpose is, like a mole trap, suddenly flung up into 

 the air with the astonished occupant. Their prophet 

 too, or teacher Buddha, M as fond of pork* 



The flesh of the turtle is also ha ram to the Malay, 

 although he is permitted to eat its eggs. These are 

 s i ught for in the sand with great avidity ; as are the 

 eggs of die tnntohg, or river turtle, which are oblong 

 and less oily than those of the sea turtle. The Ma- 

 lays assign two reasons for the interdiction; one that 

 as it keeps its head withdrawn within the shell, its sa- 

 crifice, or simbileh, cannot be made, nor the bismillah, 

 or ordinary invocation, repeated according to orthodox 

 custom ; — die other that it is amphibious, or, as they 

 express it, ha yuan fit (f ami nee, possessed of two dis- 

 tinct lives, one adapted to the land, the other to the 

 water. The fine rock crab is likewise eschewed by 

 strict followers of Islam, because, as they say, it exhibits 

 on its sJicll an impresMoii of the toot of the hog, and in 

 fact, all amphibious creatures are haram. 



The Burmese and Siamese are the grossest feeders 

 and the greatest consumers of rice. The Ava go- 

 vernment, ihinng the late war with the British, gave 

 the following rations to each soldier ; 



