[34] In house-building it is further forbidden to dovetail or make the ends of the timbers (e.g. of the roof) fit accurately together, and also to build two verandahs, one on each side of the house, with their floors on a level with the floor of the main building; if two verandahs are used, the floor of one must be lower than that of the main building (kelek anak). [↑]
[35] I.e. the sarong or Malay national garment; for the custom, vide Cliff., In Court and Kampong, p. 158, and for an exception, ib. 27. [↑]
[36] The hilt of the creese (k’ris) must, however, be hidden by a fold of the cloth about the wearer’s waist. [↑]
[37] “The covered portion of the barge which carries the Sultan’s principal wife is decorated with six scarlet-bordered white umbrellas. Two officers stand, all day long, just outside the state-room, holding open black umbrellas with silver fringes, and two others are in the bows with long bamboo poles held close together and erect.”—Malay Sketches, p. 214. [↑]
[38] Leyden, Malay Annals, pp. 94, 95. [↑]
[39] Code of Malacca, translated in Newbold, op. cit. vol. ii. pp. 234, 235. [↑]
[40] In Selangor this royal right to one of each pair of elephant’s tusks is still a tradition to which an allusion is occasionally made. There are said to have been other perquisites as well as those mentioned, e.g. rhinoceros’ horns (sumbu badak) and bezoar stones (guliga). [↑]
[41] Notes and Queries, No. 4, issued with J.R.A.S., S.B., No. 17, sect. 75. [↑]