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Updated: May 13, 2025
Intellectual development Sakais of the plain and Sakais of the hills Laziness and intelligence Falsehood and the Evil Spirit The Sakai language When the "Orang Putei" gets angry Counting time Novel calendars Moral gifts.
I examined the contents with great care and found a few grains of gold in the alluvion! All at once, however, an unpleasant thought crossed my mind and dimmed my bright hopes. In my chats with the Sakais they had told me that there was another orang putei at Tapah.
On the 5th of May, M. d'Alincourt arrived at Fontainebleau from Florence, with the intelligence that, on the 25th of the preceding month, the contract of marriage between the French monarch and the Princesse Marie de Medicis had been signed at the Palazzo Pitti, in the presence of Carlo-Antonio Putéi, Archbishop of Pisa, and the Duke of Bracciano; and that the bride brought as her dowry six hundred thousand crowns, besides jewels and other ornaments of value.
To better succeed in their roguery they depicted the white man as an incarnate devil, never tired of doing evil, who had come there for nothing else but to ravage their land and disperse its inhabitants. The orang putei was described to the credulent Sakais as the most terrible and cruel enemy that one could possibly imagine.
Now it has passed amongst the Sakai boys that when the Orang Putei gets angry he says "Sacramento!". And they repeat the oath with all the emphasis and air of a trooper, yet I had not taught them it nor should I have wished them to learn the exclamation.
"It was all right as far as I could see: it was like this: Memento that's right enough for remember, and it takes a genitive, memento putei inter quatuor taxos." "What silly rot!" I said. "What made you shove that down? What does it mean?" "That's the funny part," said McLeod. "I'm not quite sure what it does mean. All I know is, it just came into my head and I corked it down.
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