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In Perak, anklets of Chinese make and composed 
of an alloy of copper, gold and silver are in use to 
a certain extent. Heavy silver, or more rarely gold, 
hairpins are to be seen, but these generally follow 
Chinese patterns. 
Men’s, jewellery of the present day needs little 
description. Formerly silver watch-shaped tobacco- 
boxes and gold and silver rings of native manufac- 
ture were in use ; to-day the tobacco box is no longer 
seen and the ordinary European signet ring is 
affected by those who can afford one. 
Food. The diet of the average peasant is 
poor, consisting as at it does of boiled 
rice, a little fresh or salted fish, with some chillies 
ground up with salt to give it a relish, and -perhaps 
some cooked vegetables, such as fern-shoots. Meat 
is rarely eaten except on the occasion of feasts. 
Native fruits, sugar cane, Indian corn, glutinous 
rice cooked in bamboos with molasses, or in other 
ways, flaked rice, popped rice, durian preserve, curds 
made from buffalo milk, a semi-decayed paste made 
from pounded shrimps, and introduced luxuries like 
white sugar, onions, dried tamarind fruits and coffee 
form welcome additions to the menu. 
During the fasting month cakes of various 
kinds, most of them not very appetizing to the 
European palate, are made, and are consumed be- 
tween sunset and sunrise. 
Buffaloes, goats and fowls are slaughtered on 
ceremonial occasions, as at marriages and circum- 
cisions, at the end of the fasting month and when 
payment is made of some vow or other. The flesh 
of the animals is converted into most tasty curries 
of many varieties, but, to the European, buffalo- 
meat, unless from a calf, appears horribly tough. 
