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The Malays proper inhabit the Malay peninsula, and almost all the coast regions of Borneo and Sumatra. They all speak the Malay language, or dialects of it; they write in the Arabic character, and are Mahometans in religion. The Javanese inhabit Java, part of Sumatra, Madura, Bali, and Bart of Lombock. They speak the Javanese and Kawi languages, which they write in a native character.
Sand is commonly met with at the depth of three or four fathoms, and beneath this a stratum of napal or steatite, which is considered as a sign that the metal is near; but the least fallible mark is a red stone, called batu kawi, lying in detached pieces. It is mostly found in red and white clay, and often adhering to small stones, as well as in homogeneous lumps.
But when they saw her they went back into their houses and covered their faces from the light of her eyes. "That was the calamity; for a woman must be given in marriage by the heart of a woman sincere and unafraid. And there was not one without fear. Jiwan Kawi went out into the jungle that night; and he never came back. Fear may have taken him." The man looked away toward the horizon.
The island of Bali, and the slopes of the Tengger range, retain a modification of Hinduism, and Bali treasures a Kawi version of the Ramayan and Mahabharata epics. Many inspiring thoughts and noble sentiments, expressed in story and song, have become well-known maxims identified with Javanese life.
All the dances illustrated episodes from the Ramayana or other Hindu mythologies localized, the story being recited in a monotonous, sing-song chant, in the old Kawi or sacred language, by a professional accompanist who sat, cross-legged, in the orchestra.
And Koob Soonder small sister of Jiwan Kawi our strong young man who went away; she whose mother was taken by Fear when she was a babe, she who was stricken by the blight when she began to run she who was named for her perfect beauty, before the Grass Jungle had seen beauty more perfect " "Do you know all the story?" Cadman interrupted, with dry lips. "All," said the man.
"Am I not here to teach the little people with the telling of tales? Jiwan Kawi was sent on the great adventure, to change our silks for cotton cloths which the people consider more desirable." He paused, seeming to forget them his eyes on the leaves.
Never were more grisly scenes or more captivating and facetious cannibals. When they told Stade that he was to be eaten, they added, in order to cheer him, that he was to be washed down with a really pleasant drink called kawi. The king's son then tied Stade's legs together in three places.
Raffles, in his account of this work, says that it contains one hundred and twenty-three stanzas, and that it is said to be contemporary with the Bharata Yuddha. Vreede, in his "Catalogue," says in a note, "Winter mentions the 'Niti Sastra Kawi, and as its author Prabu Vidayaka, in the time of Aji Saka."
Then his manner changed, taking on a quality of austere impressiveness, as he continued: "Jiwan Kawi returned from the great adventure; but a woman came after him sunrise to sunset behind. She had followed him from the place of the multitudes, where all the people dwell together.
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