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Show Malay Sailors. Crows ot Malay fishing .vessels in the Indian ocean ore thus. described by a traveler: "Sorao ot tho Malays have not bad features, but others again are awful looking vllllans. Every ono has his crcece, or a sort of chopper, ' at his sldo, and with bright red lips Ami black teeth, caused by chowlng tho betel nut, looks anything but Inviting In-viting or fascinating. Tho crow llvo principally on rice nnd the fish thoy catch. Thoy carry a lot ot cocoanuts and cocoanut oil, and apparently for a luxury a sort of sweet meat mado of a coarso treaclo and rico mxcd together to-gether nnd firmly pressed Into bamboos." |