iXHABrriNG THR MALAYAN FENmsULA. 'A'A 



love for t\w. Being ihey call their creator. 

 All their knowledj^e ii] religion is merely 

 theoretical. They <lo not worship the snn 

 Dor the nionrj nor any idol; what Lirni. 

 Newhold said on that matter must he nn- 

 derstooil of some cither tribes. The know- 

 ledge ol llie Jakiins in the art of physic is 

 verv confined; thev use very little medici- 

 nes, and those of them who are sick, an: 

 ahiiost witliout assistance, and the sickness 

 is ordinarily abandoned to the ordinary 

 conrse of nature. Notw ilhstanding the Ma- 

 lays consider them as clever pliysicians, 

 and in their sinpidity they believe I hem- 

 selves very fortunate wlicn, with money or 

 by giving them clothes, tbey succeed in oj>- 

 taining from these poor people some medi- 

 cal prescriptions. The following is a speci- 

 men of such recipes, probably purloined 

 with great devotion by some superstitious 

 Malay; it is cited by Lieut. Newbold. ft \ 

 person with sore eyes nuisl use a <'olly- 



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