200
When swearing fidelity, alliance, etc., water in which daggers, spears (lĕmbing), or bullets have
been dipped is drunk, the drinker saying, “If I turn traitor, may I be eaten up by this dagger” or
“spear,” etc., as the case may be (jika aku belut, aku di-makan k’ris ini d.s.b.) ↑
201
Vide supra, p. 4, note. ↑
202
In original, Manikou. ↑
203
In original, belangur. ↑
204
The original text proceeds to give an explanation of certain patterns of damask given in a plate,
which is not reproduced here. ↑
205
The Code of Sultan Mahmud Shah, the last Malay Raja of Malacca, who was expelled by the
Portuguese under Albuquerque in A.D. 1511.
This Code was probably founded on earlier regulations ascribed to Sultan Muhammad Shah,
the first Muhammadan Raja of Malacca, and Sultan Mudhafar Shah, his son. Nothing is known
about the laws of the last named, except that (according to the Sĕjarah Malayu, chap, xii.), “he
ordered the Book of Institutes, or Kitab Undang-Undang, to be compiled,” but the preceding
chapter of the same work has a good deal to say about the laws of Sultan Muhammad Shah,
and mentions that he “prohibited the ornamenting of creeses with gold, etc.” See Leyden, op.
cit., pp. 94, 118.
A similar prohibition occurs in section i. of Sultan Mahmud’s Code, of which a translation will
be found in Newbold, Malacca, vol. ii. pp. 231 seq. ↑
206
Newbold, op. cit. vol. ii. pp. 202–208. Vide Chap. II. p. 33, supra. ↑
207
Swettenham, Malay Sketches, pp. 207, 208. ↑
208
Yet the act of sneezing is considered so fraught with the risk of the soul’s escaping, that not
unfrequently after a severer sneeze than usual, a Malay will attempt to call his soul back by
ejaculating “Cluck! Soul!” (kur, sĕmangat!) as if he were calling a chicken, and the regular use
of the phrase “Al-hamdu li’llah” (Praised be God), after sneezing suggests that he may be