INHABITING TFTE MALAYAN PENINSULA. mi 



muclt practised aiiiongsi healhen nalions, 

 and that it is even now practised in China 

 and otiier places. A lew days allei^ the birth 

 of tlie child, tlie lather gives Iiim a name, 

 whicii is ordinarily the name of some tree, 

 fruit or colour. 



SICOESS. 



I have already said that the lakuns ^ere 

 not much subject to sickness; notwillistand^ 

 ing, on account of want of proper care, lew 

 oftltem reach to an advanced age. The sick- 

 ness of wliich they have the greatest dread, 

 and from wliich they suffer most, is the 

 small-pox. Is any one attacked by it, im- 

 mediately he is entirely abandoned; pa- 

 rents, relations, friends and neighbours fly 

 away, andtfie poor sick man, thus left with- 

 out any assistance, of course dies misera- 

 bly. In their other sicknesses, they are not 

 so entirely uncared for; some physic » con- 

 sisting ordinarily of an infusion or decoc- 



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