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same kind of weapons then, for I found them in the hands of the 
Sakai tribe in the heart of the Perak country. The arrow is made 
of bambu, and the sharp end is hardened by fire, other not has a 
piece of pith. It is blown through a cane tube 6 to 7 feet long 
preserved in a sheath of a lighter cane. The shooter places the 
large knob at the top of the'tuhe in his mouth, then having closed 
his lips he expels the arrow throu h the tube with the whole 
force of his lungs. The arrow being so slight flies a long way 
with the wind, and monkeys are killed by it on the highest trees. 
The poison in which the arrow is dipped is procured from the 
i job tree but it has little effect unless used soon after it has been 
prepared over a fire. The arrow is dipped into the viscous liquid 
and immediately shot off. 
So late as the advent of the Portuguese at Malacca, the natives 
were astonished at the fire arms and guns used by the former. 
Yet it is probable that the Arabs had brought fire-arms or guns to 
Achin before that period ,, 
The Malayan short kris was in these days two and a bait spans 
or about one foot nine inches long. lire umorella is used by 
most of the Indo-Chinese nations to denote the head quarters 
of a general. The Malays employ spears with horse tad streamers 
died red attached'to them. , 
The lord is a fabulous animal. The walmana is another. lhe 
cbakkra is the iron discus. It was used in India, and is one of 
the weapons of the gods, the cbakka of the Siamese, Bali and t le 
Khrong Chak of the Siamese. It appertains in Hindu mythology 
to those who had attained to that state of purity and beatitude 
termed in the Bali reti wato . It is one of the instruments with 
which one of the chiefs o. officials tortures the damned spirits in 
Naraka, or the infernal regions of Buddhist mythology, on whose 
heads it twirls like a fiery whirlwind. According to some autho¬ 
rities the Hindu chakkra was a circular mass of fire instinct with 
life and darting forth flames on every side. Hence it has been 
inferred that the above people were possessed of a species of 
Greek fire or agni astii which they turned to the purposes of 
war 0 ). Vishnu bears in his hand the discuss termed Suhara- 
san ( 2 ) as does also his Sacti. According to Mallet cited by 
Maurice, the Scandinavian Jove seems to have been armed with 
the chakkra of Vishnu. And although it is generally I believe 
supposed that the Druidieal Circles in Europe took their form from 
the great snake with its tail in its mouth as the emblem of eternity, 
still there is reason to suppose that the chakkra, if it did not a flora 
a type for architectural purposes, was well known to the Dimes, 
for Mr Maurice acquaints us that in the year 1789 there were 
discovered gold coins with this emblem upon them in the middle 
of the ridge of Carnebrehiil in Cornwall, As a type of eternity 
(>) Wilkins’s Bhagavat. 
C 2 ) Maurice’s Indian Antiquities. 
