T H *E 
HISTORY OF SUMATRA, 
Containing 
An AccouKT of the GOVERNMENT, LAWS, 
"customs, and MANNERS \ 
* • Of the ' 
NATIVE INHABITANTS, , 
With I 
A Description of the NATURAL PRODUCTIONS, 
And * , 
A Relation of the ANCIENT POLITICAL STATE 
ISLAND. 
By 
WILLIAM M A R 8 D E N, F. R. S. 
Late SECRETARY to the PRESlBlNT and COUNCIL 
Of FORT MARLBOROUGH. • 
LONDON: 
Printed for the AUTHOR, and Sold by Thomas Payne and Son, i(i'*V/-<^Wj 
BE^^JAMIN Weite, Flett-frm; jA*fEs Rob son, New Boni-Jtriet \ P* Elm sly* 
Strmtd\ Leigh and Sot HEBY, Tork-^mt C<yutnt Gardtn i and J. Sewell, CornhilL 
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