The Calcutta Review, Volumes 62-63University of Calcutta, 1876 |
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Page 188
... Islands , speak the Malay language or dialects of it ; the islanders appear to have no script of their own , nor have ... Island ; and though the state of semi - civilization of the present tenants of the soil is yet very low and far ...
... Islands , speak the Malay language or dialects of it ; the islanders appear to have no script of their own , nor have ... Island ; and though the state of semi - civilization of the present tenants of the soil is yet very low and far ...
Page 198
... islands in the vicinity ; but that it has wholly and radically changed the naturally savage and ferocious temperament of the island races within six years seems scarcely credible , when it is remembered how slight has been our contact ...
... islands in the vicinity ; but that it has wholly and radically changed the naturally savage and ferocious temperament of the island races within six years seems scarcely credible , when it is remembered how slight has been our contact ...
Page 205
... island of Nancowry , as shewn , that it will be long ere our influence can make itself really felt through- out the more distant yet far more thickly populated islands of the north , which appear so much more deserving of our attention ...
... island of Nancowry , as shewn , that it will be long ere our influence can make itself really felt through- out the more distant yet far more thickly populated islands of the north , which appear so much more deserving of our attention ...
Contents
No CXXIII | 1 |
THE HINDU CUSTOM OF SITTING DHARNA | 37 |
THE BHAGAVADGITA AND CHRISTIANITY | 53 |
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