Newbold, Malacca, vol. ii. p. 179. ↑
156
“I have said that all birds fight more or less, but birds are not alone in this. The little, wide-
mouthed, goggled-eyed fishes, which Malay ladies keep in bottles and old kerosine tins, fight
like demons. Goats sit up and strike with their cloven hoofs, and butt and stab with their horns.
The silly sheep canter gaily to the battle, deliver thundering blows on one another’s foreheads,
and then retire and charge once more. The impact of their horny foreheads is sufficient to
reduce a man’s hand to a shapeless pulp should it find its way between the combatants’ skulls.
Tigers box like pugilists, and bite like French school-boys; and buffaloes fight clumsily,
violently, and vindictively, after the manner of their kind.”—In Court and Kampong, p. 52. ↑
157
Ibid. pp. 54–61. ↑
158
Ibid. pp. 48–52. ↑
159
Sic, correctly Kĕnantan. ↑
160
Sic, better Bangkas. ↑
161
Sic, correctly Bĕlurang. ↑
162
Sic, correctly K’labu. ↑
163
Vide pp. 545–547, infra. ↑
164
Newbold, Malacca, vol. ii. pp. 179–183. ↑
165
i.e. Sepak raga, which means “kick the wicker-work (ball).” ↑
166
Also Singketa. ↑
167
Also Tĕki-tĕki. Examples are,—What is it which you leave behind when you remember it, and
take it with you when you forget it?” Ans. “A leech.” “What is it that builds a house within a