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MEMOIR OF 
*' Tho people^ though pnofesfnedly MDhomedanfi, 
mm mure aitorhptl to thi'ir ftiicient vvrir?»lii]i and sn- 
persiitions thm 1 esppcted. I t'leaily irnml nn an- 
cient (nytlrolo|.'y, nut I obtained the names of at least 
twenty ijods, fscverflll of who mi an? Ilijirlus, In each 
of ihe villages we found a Lwnggar, siinibr to tliat 
noticed at Merambung, but generally better con- 
Btrui'ted. 
"The utmost gotMl-humonr and affection seemed 
to exif^t amont!: the people of the viUofife i tliry were 
aa one family, the men ivalking about hctUlinj? each 
other by the hand, and playinff tricks with each other 
like children. They ivere as fine a nice as I ever 
behebl ; in gem-raJ about six feet h%di, and propor- 
tionably stunt, clear and cleiin skinHj and an ojien in- 
geiiunuH countenance. They seemed to have abun- 
dance of every thing; rice, the staple food of the 
country, Iteing five times ps cheap a^^ at Bencnolen, 
atnl every oiher article of produce in proportion. 
The women and children were decorated with a pro- 
fusion of silver omamentN^ and particularly with 
strings of do!lai-s and other coias, hantfinj* two or 
three deep round thv, neck. It was not uncommon 
to see a child with a hundred dollars roun<i Iter neck. 
Every one He*'nR'fl anxious for medicine, and they 
cheerfully agreed in be vaccinated. The small-pox 
had latterly committed trreat ravages, and the popu- 
lation of whole villages had fled into the woodB to 
avoid the contagion. 
" We now thought of returning to the coast, and 
