Voyages to the East-Indies;G.G. and J. Robinson, Pater-Noster-Row., 1798 |
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137 페이지 - ... is then given to him, and he is conducted to the field of combat. ' The tiger, who has, for a long time, been kept fasting, falls upon the man with the greatest fury, and generally strikes him down at once, with his paw, but if he be fortunate enough to avoid this, and to wound the animal, so that it quits him, the emperor then commands him to attack the tiger ; and the man is then generally the victim : and even if he ultimately succeed in killing his ferocious antagonist, he must suffer death,...
257 페이지 - We procured plenty of frefh provifions all the while we lay here at a reafcnable rate ; the beef is excellent ; but it would be difficult to procure enough of it for a fquadron. Rice may be had in any quantity, fo may fowls and fruit : there are alfo abundance of wild hogs in the woods, which may be purchafed at a low price, as the natives, being Mahometans, never eat them.
135 페이지 - ... court, they are both brought upon the field of combat in large cages. The field is surrounded by a body of Javanese, four deep, with levelled pikes, in order that if the creatures endeavour to break through, they may be killed immediately; this, however, is not so easily effected; for many of these poor wretches are torn in pieces, or dreadfully wounded by the enraged animals.
61 페이지 - About four o'clock in the afternoon, we came to the farm of MELK, which at a distance, and indeed close by, appeared like a whole village. It lies among the mountains, upon the gentle declivity of a high ridge, and on the banks of an ever-running stream, which he has led, along his farm, between two brick walls, like a canal, and which turns a...
495 페이지 - Several among them at Surat are rich, and may be counted among the principal merchants. They are much fairer than either the Moors or Gentoos, and do not differ much in complexion from the Spaniards; they have, in general, large eyes, aquiline noses, and well proportioned.
359 페이지 - If they want to build a new houfe, or a new baleeuw, which is a kind of councilhall, they muft equally firft go and fetch fome human heads. They are not to be broken of this horrid cuftom ; and it is the only objection they make to embracing the Chriftian religion, that they muft then abandon it ; for no one attains a higher degree of fame and...
288 페이지 - ... or idol, was placed ; they bring every year a new one with them from China, which is then placed in their temple, and the old one of the former year is taken away, and carried back to China ; and they never begin to land any part of the cargo until the image of this idol, which is made of gold...
134 페이지 - ... should be guilty of it, or receive gratification from a display so repugnant to humanity. " When a tiger," says this voyager, " and a buffalo are to fight together for the amusement of the court, they are both brought upon the field of combat in large cages. The field is surrounded by a body of Javanese, four deep, with levelled pikes, in order that if the creatures endeavour to break through, the...
333 페이지 - Company think it fit, yet to touch their tatanamangs would fpeedily be the caufe of a general infurreâion among them ; this was manifeft on the occafion of one of the laft extirpations, when the extirpators ignorantly, at leaft as they pretended, cut down fome tatanamangs. The whole country was immediately up ; and had not the then governor, Van der V , fpeedily provided againft it, they would have deftroyed all the other clove-trees, fet fire to their habitations, and flying to the mountains, they...
270 페이지 - I would, as foon as the wind would permit, in defiance of all their menaces, and all their force, go and anchor clofe to the town ; that if at laft I fhould find myfelf unable to compel them to comply with requifitions, the reafonablenefs of which could not be controverted, I would run the fhip aground under their walls...