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of vol"}' picfisiiig uianiii:!rs, and tin iiik-lligent 



tme Malay eliatacteiisto ; he had mp&ei hk 

 left aria a large seal, or amulrt, of" nhout two 

 inclu'P in fliaiiiptcr, npon tlie stone of wliicli 

 (called "Pungli" hy the Malays) a sentence 

 loS the EoraxL was engraved ; lie Bald ii w&s inr 



*' so the A<3fem^bdieve,'' he added, hnt did 

 not ;i]i|>p<ir to place TOUcli faith himself in its 

 suj)])osed jK)\vers. 



The different rajahs came on an appointed 

 day fi?6ltt tile different districts m ih^vicfn%i 

 to Pedir, to pay their resjiects to the old rpteen 

 ])revioii? to lier departing to Aelieen in one of 

 the men-of-war. wliieli she did on the evenin«: 

 of the 20th of July, accompanied by the whole 

 of the A^heaaese Eeet , 



Accontpanied by Captain M*Alister, I visited 

 the village of ** Gingham." At the entrance of 

 tlie river, a l)ar, Csimihir r(t, [ l)eli«n e, the wliole of 

 the rivers upon this coast,) on which usually rolls 

 a hea^ y surf, rendering its entrance somewhat 

 dai^tGns for hoata ^ the i^Ver tnaoiitgljied Si 'mj 

 winding course even to the village : a nundjer 

 of slirul>s abounded iti the water, and about the 

 liauks, among wliicli were the Acantkus iiicijb' 

 and fievicral otbem. The village of Gingham 



