Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- A Map of the Island of Sumatra in the East Indies
- Situation
- Distinction of inhabitants
- Villages
- Agriculture
- Fruits, flowers, medicinal shrubs and herbs
- Beasts
- Vegetable productions of the island considered as articles of commerce
- Gold, tin, and other metals
- Languages
- Comparative state of the Sumatrans in civil society
- Remarks on, and elucidation of, the various laws and customs
- Modes of marriage, and customs relative thereto
- Custom of chewing betel
- The country of Lampong and its inhabitants
- Account of the inland country of Korinchi
- Malayan states
- Kingdoms of Indrapura, Anak-Sungei, Passamman, Siak
- Kingdom of Achin
- History of the kingdom of Achin
- Brief account of the islands lying off the western coast of Sumatra
- INDEX
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- A Map of the Island of Sumatra in the East Indies
- Situation
- Distinction of inhabitants
- Villages
- Agriculture
- Fruits, flowers, medicinal shrubs and herbs
- Beasts
- Vegetable productions of the island considered as articles of commerce
- Gold, tin, and other metals
- Languages
- Comparative state of the Sumatrans in civil society
- Remarks on, and elucidation of, the various laws and customs
- Modes of marriage, and customs relative thereto
- Custom of chewing betel
- The country of Lampong and its inhabitants
- Account of the inland country of Korinchi
- Malayan states
- Kingdoms of Indrapura, Anak-Sungei, Passamman, Siak
- Kingdom of Achin
- History of the kingdom of Achin
- Brief account of the islands lying off the western coast of Sumatra
- INDEX
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- Chapter
- Information
- The History of SumatraContaining an Account of the Government, Laws, Customs, and Manners of the Native Inhabitants, pp. 112 - 128Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012First published in: 1811