- Author:
- Marryat, Frank
- Publication Info:
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London:
Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans,
1848,
pg 100
Text on page 100
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BORNEO AND
the monkey in face, with an air of low cunning and rascality most unprepossessing. In stature they are very low, and generally bandylegged. Their hair and eyes are invariably black, but the face is, in most cases, devoid of hair; when it does grow, it is only at the extreme point of the chin. The Borneo Malay women are as plain as the men, although at Sincapore, Mauritius, and the Sooloos, they are well favoured; and they wind their serang, or robe, so tight round their bodies, that they walk in a very constrained and ungainly fashion. Many of these tribes are intermixed with the natives of the Celebes, such as the inhabitants of Sooloo.
MALAY WOMAN.
The Malays deal with criminals in a very summary manner, the knowledge of which prevents many crimes among this semi-barbarous people. Robbers, for the first offence, lose their right hand; for the second they undergo the penalty of death. When we were at Kuchin
