[154] This dance is said to be borrowed from the Arabs. [↑]
[155] Newbold, Malacca, vol. ii. p. 179. [↑]
[156] “I have said that all birds fight more or less, but birds are not alone in this. The little, wide-mouthed, goggled-eyed fishes, which Malay ladies keep in bottles and old kerosine tins, fight like demons. Goats sit up and strike with their cloven hoofs, and butt and stab with their horns. The silly sheep canter gaily to the battle, deliver thundering blows on one another’s foreheads, and then retire and charge once more. The impact of their horny foreheads is sufficient to reduce a man’s hand to a shapeless pulp should it find its way between the combatants’ skulls. Tigers box like pugilists, and bite like French school-boys; and buffaloes fight clumsily, violently, and vindictively, after the manner of their kind.”—In Court and Kampong, p. 52. [↑]
[159] Sic, correctly Kĕnantan. [↑]
[160] Sic, better Bangkas. [↑]
[161] Sic, correctly Bĕlurang. [↑]