 ... temple was erected over their tomb, and when a merchant vessel arrives, it must kill a cow or roast fowls, and offer at the same time melati and other flowers ; if any man in the ship does not worship he becomes ill. When the people of the country...  Journal of the American Oriental Society - Page 325by American Oriental Society - 1913Full view - About this book
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Straits Branch, Reinhold Rost - 1887 - 342 pages
...must kill a cow or roast fowls, and offer at the same time melati and other flowers ; if any man in the ship does not worship he becomes ill. When the...thank the deities for it, which is certainly very curious. " The trade is carried on in the following way : — When a Chinese ship arrives presents... | |
 | American Oriental Society - 1912 - 938 pages
...who have encouraged, if not started, the unorthodox deification of living and dead rulers. The Sultau of Kotei is supposed to have been descended from a...after the country had become formally Mohammedan. Notice in this story the influence of the proverbial Malay love for cock-fighting. It is only the rich... | |
 | Reinhold Rost - 2000 - 340 pages
...the people of the country go out tmding, they make an offering of flowers, and when they come hack, having made profit, they take two cocks, to whose...thank the deities for it, which is certainly very curious. "The tmde is carried on in the following way: — When a Chinese ship arrives presents are... | |
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