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Glutinous rice, coloured and flavoured with turmeric, 
is also much in evidence at ceremonial feasts. 
Steam-cooking is in common use and glutiomis rice 
is often cooked by this method. 
Coconut oil is used for frying fish, fowls and 
banana fritters and the juice expressed from coconut 
pulp is plentifully employed in making Malay curries, 
which are liberally flavoured with cinnamon, cloves, 
turmeric and many other spices. 
Amusements. Many of the old-time native amuse- 
ments are gradually falling into 
abeyance. Once, fights between buffaloes, buffaloes 
and tigers, and between rams were held on great 
occasions, but they are now so rare, being either 
forbidden or discouraged, that I think myself lucky 
to have been present at both a ram fight and at a 
contest between two buffaloes ; neither event was 
at all exciting. 
Cock-fighting, with or without artificial spurs, 
was at one time much indulged in, but now the 
Malay generally has to content himself with fights 
between such small game as doves and quails. 
Betting on sporting events is always in evens. 
One would not, perhaps, be far wrong in placing 
the attendance at ceremonial feasts in connexion 
with circumcisions, marriages and burials, among 
amusements, as well as the parties for singing 
religious verses which are so popular. 
Of games played by adults, football with a 
wicker-work ball certainly deserves mention. The 
players stand in a circle and the object is to keep 
the ball in the air as long as possible. Kicking is 
with the inner side of the foot and ankle, and a 
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