javenese

Updated: May 7, 2025

The men, meanwhile, had each rolled up a quid of betel-nut, taking the four ingredients carefully from the little brass boxes in the wooden tray before them, and having prepared cigarettes of Javenese tobacco, with the dried shoots of the nîpah palm for wrappers, had at length broken the absorbed silence, which had held them fast while the matter of the meal was occupying their undivided attention.

Sir Hugh Charles Clifford - In Court and Kampong: Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula