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Updated: May 5, 2025
To omit it on the one hand or to reject it on the other would be an affront; as it would be likewise in a person of subordinate rank to address a great man without the precaution of chewing it before he spoke. All the preparation consists in spreading on the sirih leaf a small quantity of the chunam and folding it up with a slice of the pinang nut.
After breakfast every one goes about their own business; the men shooting, searching for poisons, or setting traps; the women and girls gathering tubers, bulbs and mushrooms, or catching insects, lizards and frogs, whilst the old people no longer able to go to the forest remain behind chewing tobacco or sirih and looking after the children. Sunrise and sunset keep each other company!
Neither do they drink alcoholic beverages for the simple reason that they have not got them and do not know what they are. If they should ever come to taste them and procure them easily will they not crave for them like all other savages? As soon as the Sakai's frugal meal is finished he fills his mouth with tobacco, or if he has none, with sirih.
"I did everything man could do to shake the Pangeran's resolution; and I believe I should have been successful, had his stock of tobacco and sirih not been expended. My last resource was resorting to the means found efficient with most men to induce them to alter their opinion.
And when they were near the summit, the Rajah ordered them all to halt, while he alone went to meet the great spirit on the very peak of the mountain. So he went on with two boys only who carried his sirih and betel, and soon reached the top of the mountain among great rocks, on the edge of the great gulf whence issue forth continually smoke and vapour.
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