[134] In Court and Kampong, pp. 147, 148. [↑]
[137] One of these stones (cocoa-nut pearls) in my possession has recently been presented to the Ethnological Museum at Cambridge. It is encircled by a dark ring, caused, I was told, by its adherence to the shell of the cocoa-nut in which it was found, for it is asserted that it is usually, if not always, found in the open eye or orifice at the base of the cocoa-nut, through which the root would otherwise issue.—W. S. [↑]
[138] Quoted from the Singapore Free Press in Denys’ Descriptive Dictionary of British Malaya, p. 80. [↑]
[139] Nephelium lappaeum, L. (Sapindaceae). [↑]
[140] Baccaurea motleyana, Hook. fil. (Euphorbiaceae). [↑]
[141] Or Langsat (Lansium domesticum, Jack; Meliaceae). [↑]
[142] Resembling the last named, but larger, and finer in flavour. [↑]