Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Temas52-57Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1909 Vocabularies, etc., of the Malayan languages are included in some of the volumes. |
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Términos y frases comunes
acuminate adinda akan Ampun anak anthers apa-lah Awang Sulong Merah ayahanda baginda Baik-lah balek Batin Batu berkata besar Bracts Calyx Corolla Dang Seri Arif dari-pada datang Dato demikian di-atas di-dalam engkau flowers glabrous gunong hairy hamba hari hendak hulubalang inch long inch wide Jakun jikalau Johor ka-dalam ka-pada kakanda karna kata Kemala-al-arifin Kera Kěra Kechil kita Kuala lagi laki Laksamana lama-nya lanceolate leaves lembaga Lenggong lobes makan Malacca malam Malay masok mengadap naik negeri Negri Sembilan oblong obtuse orang ovate pada Pahang Panicles patek peduncle Penang Peninsula Perak pergi Perut Petals petiole plant pubescent pula pulang Raja Seri Rama Rembau river Sa-tělah sakalian sampai sampai-lah Sarawak segala Selamat Selangor sembah Sepals seperti Sĕri Seri Arif Laksana serta Singapore species Stamens sudah Sulong Merah Muda tělah Temenggong tempat tiada tiga titah tree tribal chief tribe tuan kadzi tuan puteri tuanku tujoh Ulu Temengoh Undang waris
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Página 66 - I'll be torn piece-meal by a horse, Ere I'll take you for better or worse. The Prince of Cambay's daily food Is asp, and basilisk, and toad, Which makes him have so strong a breath, Each night he stinks a queen to death ; Yet I shall rather lie in's arms Than yours on any other terms.
Página 61 - ... of clean and dry pepper. The collection of one day from 46,000 plants of three years old was 5,00 cattis of green, or 175 of dry pepper. It is usual, as was before noticed, when the plantation is delivered over to the proprietor, at the end of three years, to let it to a Chinese farmer for five years more, as the proprietor is thereby less liable to imposition, the only precaution necessary being to see that the tenant is careful of the vines during the last year, and leaves them in good condition...
Página xiv - ... for the current year remain unpaid. Such members shall be deemed to be suspended from membership until their subscriptions have been paid, and in default of payment within two years shall be deemed to have resigned their membership. No member shall receive a copy of the Journal or other publications of the Society until his subscription for the current year has been paid. 7. Distinguished persons, and persons who have rendered notable service to the Society may on the recommendation of the council...
Página 60 - This obliges the tree to put out lateral branches at that height. When these have attained the length of about a foot or fifteen inches they are cut off. From their ends arise erect shoots, each of which forms a stem, so that the vine has four or five stems to climb on instead of one. The vines at three years of age begin to produce, and they are reckoned to be in full bearing at five or six. They continue nearly in the same state for eight years more, or till they are fourteen years old. From that...
Página xvi - At all meetings the Chairman shall in the case of an equality of votes be entitled to a casting vote in addition to his own. 14. The Annual General Meeting shall be held in February in each year. Eleven members shall form a quorum. 15. (i) At the Annual General Meeting the Council shall present a report for the preceding year and the Treasurer shall render an account of the financial condition of the Society. Copies of such report and account shall be circulated to members with the notice calling...
Página xvi - Rules. 21. Amendments to these Rules must be proposed in writing to the Council, who shall submit them to a General Meeting duly summoned to consider them.
Página 59 - ... plants. The sum is liquidated by instalments, as the contractor requires it to pay his workmen. Something more than one-third is paid in the first year, because the labour is then greatest ; but about one-fourth of the whole is generally reserved till the contract is completed, and the plantation delivered over. This does not include the price of the plants or cuttings, which are furnished by the proprietor of the plantation. The vine is first made to climb on a pole. At the end of ten or twelve...
Página xv - Society. (b) to elect Ordinary and Corresponding Members and to recommend candidates for election as Honorary Members of the Society. (c) to obtain and select material for publication in the Journal and to supervise the printing and distribution of the Journal. (d) to authorise the publication of works and maps at the expense of the Society otherwise than in the Journal.
Página 58 - Chinese, who dig out the roots, burn them and the trunks, pulverize and level the soil, plant the pepper vines and the trees which are to support them. It is usual to contract with them for making the plantation in this manner, and taking care of it for three years, at the end of which time it is in bearing, at the rate of 225 dollars for 100 plants. The sum is liquidated by instalments, as the contractor requires it to pay his workmen. Something more than one-third is paid in the first year, because...
Página 140 - Long had past the hour of midnight, Lingered yet the coming day-light ; Twice ere now had wakening infants Risen and sunk again in slumber ; Wrapped in sleep were all the elders, Far away were pheasants calling, in the woods the shrill cicada, Chirped and dew came dropping earthwards. Now lowed oxen in the meadows, Moaned the buffaloes imprisoned, Cocks, with voice and wings, responded. And with feebler note the murai.