Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore, and China, Vol. 2 (of 2) : $b Being the journal of a naturalist in those countries, during 1832, 1833 and 1834Bennett, George
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Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore, and China, Vol. 2 (of 2) : $b Being the journal of a naturalist in those countries, during 1832, 1833 and 1834
Bennett, George
Asia -- Description and travel; Natural history -- Australia -- New South Wales; New South Wales -- Description and travel
Tomb of Napoleon—The willows—Contrasted feelings of the French
and English visitors to Buonaparte’s grave—Fish—Sail from St.
Helena—Island of Ascension—Frigate birds—Shark, Sucking, and
Pilot Fish—The Sargasso weed—Condition of the Crowned pigeons—A
swallow captured during migration—Temperature—Arrival at
Gravesend 246
APPENDIX.
Cocoa-nut tree 295
Morbid Appetite in Sheep 343
The Albatross 357
Notes on the Plantain and Banana Tree 399
The Inhabitant of the Nautilus Pompilius 406
On the habits of the Viverra Mussunga, or Java Cat 412
Luminosity of the Ocean 421
Treaty between the British and Acheenese governments 424
_Page 243, line 19_, after island, _insert_ with passengers of the French
nation.
WANDERINGS, _&c._
CHAPTER I.
Pedir coast—Treaty with the Acheenese—Anarchy—Syed Hussain’s
claims—Trade in the Areka-nut—Visit to the Village of
Gingham—Negociation for the restoration of a Penang brig—An
amulet—Visit of the Rajahs to the Queen—Gingham—Trade of the
coast.
It is stated, that during the life of the former rajah, Pedir was not
a tributary district to the territory of Acheen, but commanded the
whole line of coast to the eastward, and from that circumstance the
Betel-nut coast, which extends to the eastward, and not to the westward
of Pedir, received the name of the Pedir coast: the old rajah was also
very expeditious in loading ships, and took the goods in barter from the
traffickers at the fixed price, unless they were rated extravagantly
high.
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