Chapter XXII

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From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

any address at which you dwell more than temporarily

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

plural of “aborigine” — an indigenous person who was born in a particular place

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

termination of pregnancy

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

later than; following

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

surrounded by; in the middle of a group

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

plural of “ancestor” — someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

plural of “anecdote” — short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a group of many islands in a large body of water

From this reading Borneo Proper is one of the few Malay kingdoms that remain in the Archipelago possessing the semblance of independent government; and as a type of what was, and what we may hope is passing away, it is worth a short description.

studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading Borneo Proper is one of the few Malay kingdoms that remain in the Archipelago possessing the semblance of independent government; and as a type of what was, and what we may hope is passing away, it is worth a short description.

The powdery residue left after the burning of a substance.

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a shelter from danger or hardship

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

tried unsuccessfully

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)

From this reading Borneo Proper is one of the few Malay kingdoms that remain in the Archipelago possessing the semblance of independent government; and as a type of what was, and what we may hope is passing away, it is worth a short description.

an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf

From this reading Nominally, this kingdom extends from Sarawak to Maludu Bay and the islands to the north of it; but, in reality, it possesses no power, and exercises little influence over its dependencies.

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading The government consists of a sultan, now dignified by the higher title of Iang de per Tuan, freely to be translated by “He who governs.”

according with custom or propriety

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

fearless and daring

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

3rd largest island in the world; in the western Pacific to the north of Java; largely covered by dense jungle and rain forest; part of the Malay Archipelago

From this reading THE KINGDOM OF BORNEO PROPER.

an alloy of copper and zinc

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a sultanate in northwestern Borneo; became independent of Great Britain in 1984

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading Nominally, this kingdom extends from Sarawak to Maludu Bay and the islands to the north of it; but, in reality, it possesses no power, and exercises little influence over its dependencies.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a resin obtained from the camphor tree; used in making celluloid and liniment

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

assets available for use in the production of further assets

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

(baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball team

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

plural of “child” — a young person of either sex

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

coins collectively

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

the act of gathering something together

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a disorderly outburst or tumult

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

plural of “companion” — a friend who is frequently in the company of another

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

plural of “concubine” — a woman who cohabits with an important man

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

third-person singular of “consist” — originate

From this reading The government consists of a sultan, now dignified by the higher title of Iang de per Tuan, freely to be translated by “He who governs.”

soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a politically organized body of people under a single government

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

(criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

beyond or deviating from the usual or expected

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

accepted or habitual practice

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

money collected under a tariff

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies

From this reading The government consists of a sultan, now dignified by the higher title of Iang de per Tuan, freely to be translated by “He who governs.”

the process of gradually becoming inferior

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

be false to; be dishonest with

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

plural of “dependency” — the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a statement that represents something in words

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

the quality of being unlike or dissimilar

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance

From this reading The government consists of a sultan, now dignified by the higher title of Iang de per Tuan, freely to be translated by “He who governs.”

a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

separated in space or coming from or going to a distance

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

plural of “district” — a region marked off for administrative or other purposes

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

plural of “division” — an army unit large enough to sustain combat

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

every one of two or more people or things, taken separately

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

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From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

plural of “exaction” — act of demanding or levying by force or authority

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

very good; of the highest quality

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

the feeling of lively and cheerful joy

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

plural of “exercise” — the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit

From this reading Nominally, this kingdom extends from Sarawak to Maludu Bay and the islands to the north of it; but, in reality, it possesses no power, and exercises little influence over its dependencies.

a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

plural of “export” — commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

third-person singular of “extend” — extend in scope or range or area

From this reading Nominally, this kingdom extends from Sarawak to Maludu Bay and the islands to the north of it; but, in reality, it possesses no power, and exercises little influence over its dependencies.

the point or degree to which something extends

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

fail to do something; leave something undone

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining form)

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “a”; a small but indefinite number

From this reading Borneo Proper is one of the few Malay kingdoms that remain in the Archipelago possessing the semblance of independent government; and as a type of what was, and what we may hope is passing away, it is worth a short description.

being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

start firing a weapon

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

the act of someone who fishes as a diversion

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a group of followers or enthusiasts

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

in a free manner

From this reading The government consists of a sultan, now dignified by the higher title of Iang de per Tuan, freely to be translated by “He who governs.”

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading Nominally, this kingdom extends from Sarawak to Maludu Bay and the islands to the north of it; but, in reality, it possesses no power, and exercises little influence over its dependencies.

a gum resin used as a yellow pigment and a purgative

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

plural of “gentleman” — a man of refinement

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a young female

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

coins made of gold

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

third-person singular of “govern” — bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations

From this reading The government consists of a sultan, now dignified by the higher title of Iang de per Tuan, freely to be translated by “He who governs.”

English writer known for his interest in mythology and in the classics (1895-1985)

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

plural of “gun” — a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading The government consists of a sultan, now dignified by the higher title of Iang de per Tuan, freely to be translated by “He who governs.”

a large number or amount

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

A person legally or magically entitled to the property or rank of another on that person's death.

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

advanced in complexity or elaboration

From this reading The government consists of a sultan, now dignified by the higher title of Iang de per Tuan, freely to be translated by “He who governs.”

a local and well-defined elevation of the land

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a specific instance of feeling hopeful

From this reading Borneo Proper is one of the few Malay kingdoms that remain in the Archipelago possessing the semblance of independent government; and as a type of what was, and what we may hope is passing away, it is worth a short description.

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From this reading The government consists of a sultan, now dignified by the higher title of Iang de per Tuan, freely to be translated by “He who governs.”

a change for the better; progress in development

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

becoming greater or larger

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

free from external control and constraint

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

of or characteristic of low rank or importance

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

plural of “inhabitant” — a person who inhabits a particular place

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Borneo Proper is one of the few Malay kingdoms that remain in the Archipelago possessing the semblance of independent government; and as a type of what was, and what we may hope is passing away, it is worth a short description.

plural of “island” — a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water

From this reading Nominally, this kingdom extends from Sarawak to Maludu Bay and the islands to the north of it; but, in reality, it possesses no power, and exercises little influence over its dependencies.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading Borneo Proper is one of the few Malay kingdoms that remain in the Archipelago possessing the semblance of independent government; and as a type of what was, and what we may hope is passing away, it is worth a short description.

belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

the quality of being just or fair

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

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From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a domain in which something is dominant

From this reading THE KINGDOM OF BORNEO PROPER.

plural of “kingdom” — a domain in which something is dominant

From this reading Borneo Proper is one of the few Malay kingdoms that remain in the Archipelago possessing the semblance of independent government; and as a type of what was, and what we may hope is passing away, it is worth a short description.

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From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in place

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent

From this reading Nominally, this kingdom extends from Sarawak to Maludu Bay and the islands to the north of it; but, in reality, it possesses no power, and exercises little influence over its dependencies.

relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

plural of “lord” — terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

appealing to the emotions as well as the eye

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

plural of “lover” — a person who loves someone or is loved by someone

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

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From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago

From this reading Borneo Proper is one of the few Malay kingdoms that remain in the Archipelago possessing the semblance of independent government; and as a type of what was, and what we may hope is passing away, it is worth a short description.

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From this reading Nominally, this kingdom extends from Sarawak to Maludu Bay and the islands to the north of it; but, in reality, it possesses no power, and exercises little influence over its dependencies.

plural of “manufacturer” — a business engaged in manufacturing some product

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

used to say something is possible, or to give permission

From this reading Borneo Proper is one of the few Malay kingdoms that remain in the Archipelago possessing the semblance of independent government; and as a type of what was, and what we may hope is passing away, it is worth a short description.

the force of workers available

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a way of doing something, especially a systematic way; implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps)

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

common to or shared by two or more parties

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

disregarded

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

not any; not one

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

plural of “noble” — a titled peer of the realm

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

in name only

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

the region of the United States lying to the north of the Mason-Dixon line

From this reading Nominally, this kingdom extends from Sarawak to Maludu Bay and the islands to the north of it; but, in reality, it possesses no power, and exercises little influence over its dependencies.

in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events

From this reading The government consists of a sultan, now dignified by the higher title of Iang de per Tuan, freely to be translated by “He who governs.”

the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading THE KINGDOM OF BORNEO PROPER.

from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

plural of “officer” — any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading Borneo Proper is one of the few Malay kingdoms that remain in the Archipelago possessing the semblance of independent government; and as a type of what was, and what we may hope is passing away, it is worth a short description.

the act of subjugating by cruelty

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

military supplies

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

belonging to the speaker and others

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

not allowed to continue to bat or run

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

above and across; more than

From this reading Nominally, this kingdom extends from Sarawak to Maludu Bay and the islands to the north of it; but, in reality, it possesses no power, and exercises little influence over its dependencies.

a large and stately mansion

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

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From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

plural of “parish” — a local church community

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

plural of “party” — an organization to gain political power

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

an organization to gain political power

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

(American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate

From this reading Borneo Proper is one of the few Malay kingdoms that remain in the Archipelago possessing the semblance of independent government; and as a type of what was, and what we may hope is passing away, it is worth a short description.

the state prevailing during the absence of war

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

add pepper to

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

for each

From this reading The government consists of a sultan, now dignified by the higher title of Iang de per Tuan, freely to be translated by “He who governs.”

affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

Goods or treasure taken by force or theft, especially in war or banditry.

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

involving or characteristic of politics or parties or politicians

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

the people who inhabit a territory or state

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

the particular portion of space occupied by something

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

third-person singular of “possess” — have as an attribute, knowledge, or skill

From this reading Nominally, this kingdom extends from Sarawak to Maludu Bay and the islands to the north of it; but, in reality, it possesses no power, and exercises little influence over its dependencies.

-ing form of “possess” — have as an attribute, knowledge, or skill

From this reading Borneo Proper is one of the few Malay kingdoms that remain in the Archipelago possessing the semblance of independent government; and as a type of what was, and what we may hope is passing away, it is worth a short description.

plural of “possession” — the act of having and controlling property

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a future prospect or potential

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

(used only in combination) something weighing a given number of pounds

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

poor enough to need help from others

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

possession of controlling influence

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a customary way of operation or behavior

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

plural of “prawn” — any of various edible decapod crustaceans

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness

From this reading THE KINGDOM OF BORNEO PROPER.

subjected to a penalty (as pain or shame or restraint or loss) for an offense or fault or in order to coerce some behavior (as a confession or obedience)

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

plural of “punishment” — the act of punishing

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you

From this reading Nominally, this kingdom extends from Sarawak to Maludu Bay and the islands to the north of it; but, in reality, it possesses no power, and exercises little influence over its dependencies.

concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

stay the same; remain in a certain state

From this reading Borneo Proper is one of the few Malay kingdoms that remain in the Archipelago possessing the semblance of independent government; and as a type of what was, and what we may hope is passing away, it is worth a short description.

separated in relationship by a given degree of descent

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

the entire amount of income before any deductions are made

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a particular instance of selling

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

the largest state in Malaysia; located on the northwest of the island of Borneo

From this reading Nominally, this kingdom extends from Sarawak to Maludu Bay and the islands to the north of it; but, in reality, it possesses no power, and exercises little influence over its dependencies.

division of a group into opposing factions

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

government of a political unit by its own people

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading

From this reading Borneo Proper is one of the few Malay kingdoms that remain in the Archipelago possessing the semblance of independent government; and as a type of what was, and what we may hope is passing away, it is worth a short description.

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From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the Isthmus of Kra to the Malay Peninsula

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

an instance of visual perception

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

the quality of being similar

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

the act of singing vocal music

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a person who is owned by someone

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

plural of “subject” — the subject matter of a conversation or discussion

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

past form of “suffer” — undergo or be subjected to

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

A noble monarch or supreme sovereign ruler of an Islamic country or empire.

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

possessive form of “sultan” — the ruler of a Muslim country (especially of the former Ottoman Empire)

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

an irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

closely encircling

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

of or relating to or transmitted by telegraph

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

plural of “teller” — United States physicist (born in Hungary) who worked on the first atom bomb and the first hydrogen bomb (1908-2003)

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

good at remembering

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a coming to an end of a contract period

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading THE KINGDOM OF BORNEO PROPER.

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

the people or things already mentioned, as the object

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading Nominally, this kingdom extends from Sarawak to Maludu Bay and the islands to the north of it; but, in reality, it possesses no power, and exercises little influence over its dependencies.

a heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with

From this reading The government consists of a sultan, now dignified by the higher title of Iang de per Tuan, freely to be translated by “He who governs.”

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

an inherited pattern of thought or action

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

past form of “translate” — restate (words) from one language into another language

From this reading The government consists of a sultan, now dignified by the higher title of Iang de per Tuan, freely to be translated by “He who governs.”

care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a cunning or deceitful action or device

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading The government consists of a sultan, now dignified by the higher title of Iang de per Tuan, freely to be translated by “He who governs.”

the lowest brass wind instrument

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

a subdivision of a particular kind of thing

From this reading Borneo Proper is one of the few Malay kingdoms that remain in the Archipelago possessing the semblance of independent government; and as a type of what was, and what we may hope is passing away, it is worth a short description.

characterized by unity; being or joined into a single entity

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

not punished

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

the activity of making visits

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Borneo Proper is one of the few Malay kingdoms that remain in the Archipelago possessing the semblance of independent government; and as a type of what was, and what we may hope is passing away, it is worth a short description.

the speaker together with one or more other people

From this reading Borneo Proper is one of the few Malay kingdoms that remain in the Archipelago possessing the semblance of independent government; and as a type of what was, and what we may hope is passing away, it is worth a short description.

used to ask for information about something

From this reading Borneo Proper is one of the few Malay kingdoms that remain in the Archipelago possessing the semblance of independent government; and as a type of what was, and what we may hope is passing away, it is worth a short description.

which person or people

From this reading The government consists of a sultan, now dignified by the higher title of Iang de per Tuan, freely to be translated by “He who governs.”

a married woman; a man's partner in marriage

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

plural of “woman” — an adult female person (as opposed to a man)

From this reading Its Nominal Extent--Its Government--The Sultan--The Viziers--The Shabandar--The inferior Officers--Their Influence--“The Abode of Peace”--Poverty-stricken Gentlemen--Possessions of the Nobles--The Country parcelled out among them--Distant Dependencies becoming independent--Oppression of the surrounding Districts--Divisions among the Nobles--Poverty of the Nobles--Population of Brunei--System of Plunder--Sale of Children--Handsome Brass Guns--Their Fate--No Justice--Crime nominally Punished--No Possibility of Improvement--Anecdotes--System of Local Self-government--The Parishes--Their Names, and the Occupation of their Inhabitants--Fishing--Shell Heaps--Asylum--Treatment of a Slave Girl--Political Parties--Religious Schism--An attempted Explanation--Followers of each Party--Difference of Length of Fast Month--Visiting the Graves of Ancestors--A pretty Custom--Search after Excitement--Story Tellers--Conjurors--Their Arts--Practice of Abortion--The Egg-cooking Trick--The Sultan’s Palace--Its Inhabitants--His Wife and his Concubines--Their Treatment--Bold Lovers--Anecdote--Tragical Termination--The Women deceive their Lords--The Inverted Language--Education neglected--Sight of a Harim--Mutual Disappointment--Rajahs pleasant Companions--Their Customs--Tenacious of Rank--Decay of Brunei--Exactions suffered by the Aborigines--The Kadayans--Tradition--Hill Men united--Commotion--Kadayans have great Influence--Lovely Country--Kadayans removed to Labuan--Short Description of that Colony--Excellent Position--Coal--Telegraphic Communication--Good Effect of our Colony--Trade Increasing--Pepper--Exports--Cotton--Fine Jungle--Method of Collecting the Camphor and the Gamboge in Siam--The Coal-fields--Revenue of the Sultan--Brunei Government no Power--Crime unpunished--A Bold Thief--Makota and the Fire--Nominal Punishments--Cutting off the Hand--The Fail of Ashes--Singing Fish--Curious Method of Catching Prawns--Tuba Fishing--Superstition--Money--Coinage of the Capital--Cloth--Iron--Gun-metal--Good Manufacturers of Brass Ordnance--A 12-pounder--Similarity of Customs--The Sultan--The Heir to his Subjects--Makota and his Gold.

an indefinite quantity of something having a specified value

From this reading Borneo Proper is one of the few Malay kingdoms that remain in the Archipelago possessing the semblance of independent government; and as a type of what was, and what we may hope is passing away, it is worth a short description.