MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES &C. 
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head: at length, all is ready, and still looking downward for fair¬ 
ness’sake, he raises his hand slowly, for it is a moment big with con¬ 
sequence, and the parcel that first meets his hand determines his li¬ 
berty or bondage. Poor man, he has always encountered the charcoal ! 
Another word as to speech: in some of the specimens the words, though 
possibly all used by some one or another person in Karangan, belong 
in some cases to neighbouring districts. The custom of the country 
expects the husband, just made, to settle amid the scenes of the 
wooing, and thus the maiden imports a dialect almost certainly dif¬ 
fering from that of her village. Not far lienee (say 3 hours), is a 
point which, for the nonce, we will call central, and at which British 
railroad speed would collect from the four winds, in half an hour, 
nay 15 to 20 minutes, men who, in answering a question with “ 1 
have none” would produce this medley among them, mak, aja , lung- 
it, dade , ajeu and kai bisi; here, mak expresses it, and /cat is the 
simple tc not” to travel with a verb, as you have just seen in the fast 
of the six. The list is easily extensible, on information, hut I name 
only those that arc at the end of a half-day’s radius from us, at far¬ 
thest. In one of these villages, an old woman startled my ear with 
a sound quite long unheard, but distinct as could be wished, though 
bodied forth in the voice of cracked complaining. The white tour¬ 
ist and his two burden hearers are held to possess, among the bag¬ 
gage, all that the variant tastes of mendicant poverty can well name 
in the course of a noon-day call. Where a halt for the night is made, 
the expectants have time for a judicious rumination and leisurely 
approach to a subject. This dame, whose wiry hair, from appear¬ 
ances, might have been studiously elfed for a terror to the infant 
department, came tottering to the semi-circle, with her only not 
empty, because excessively filthy boxes, repeating with a whine, 
“ apoh ajeu, wai ajeu, wit ajeu, charia ajeu, ha,cm (pron. bakke) pan 
ajeu”, and, could you have seen the covetously blear eyes, the chin 
excited to triphammer gallop and all the detail of the “ mise en 
scene”, hesitancy would have, for the moment, felt like guilt, could 
you have supplied, hut refused to do it, the withered hands of the 
poor old woman who droned “ no lime, no betel-nut, no sirih, no 
gambler,—tobacco, even, none.” The resemblance to the baccy of an 
old negress devoted to her pipe was close and notable. And now, for 
a rapid pen will ramble hither and yon, and again I justify on the 
ground that 1 am not compiling but letter-writing, with a free rein 
given to association and memory,—let us put down, in few words, 
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