Curiosities of Superstition, and Sketches - W. H. Davenport Adams

principal priest, where dinner was already spread upon the table. The Buddhist priests are not permitted to eat ani ...

brushwood, shrubs, and trees. Some of the finest bamboos of China flourish in the ravines, and the somb ...

idols are thirty or forty feet high, generally made of wood or clay, and then richly gilt. In a tem ...

Buddhism, it is impossible to doubt the sincerity of its disciples, when we find them sometimes travelling ...

Chinese lady, or a Mandarin, with the gold button and peacock feather mounted on his hat, and his long tail ...

burning incense rose columns of fragrant smoke. The inmates of the house and their friends were all clothed in ...

Processions in honour of the gods are of frequent occurrence. Mr. Fortune speaks of one which he ...

CHAPTER VII. AMONG THE MALAYS: THE SLAMATAN BROMOK; THE DYAKS; THE PAPUAN TRIBES; THE AHETAS. THE SLAMATAN BROMOK. A R ...

The surface is strangely corrugated or ridged, like the sea-sand at ebb of tide; and the whole landscape is as ...

other spices, which are sold for offerings. At right angles runs another row, with the same number of pri ...

over the scene, the Sea of Sand resumes its ordinary aspect of loneliness and desolation. THE DYAKS OF BORNEO. ...

IN BOURU. The inhabitants of Bouru, one of the islands of the Malay Archipelago, profess a creed which was taught ...

THE PAPUAN TRIBES. Among the Dorians, or the inhabitants of the north coast of New Guinea, near Port Dory, an ...

the Eastern islands to Australia, we observe a gradual religious decadence, until the depth of barbarism is reache ...

live in the African desert or the American forest, among the snows of Siberia or on the table-land of Tibet, w ...

Calling Jamboo, his interpreter, Osborn desired him to ask the Malay what he saw in the jungle. Judge his astonishm ...

was slowly crossing another avenue in the forest. “Feeling the folly,” says Sherard Osborn, “of ...

Passing on to the Philippine Islands, we meet there with the Ahetas, who, like the Orang-Lauts, have no ...

bringing her back to her friends before sunset, she becomes his wife; but if he fail, he is required to aband ...

CHAPTER VIII. THE SAVAGE RACES OF ASIA: THE SAMOJEDES; THE MONGOLS; THE OSTIAKS; IN TIBET THE SAMOJEDES. THE Sam ...