Sketches, Civil and Military, of the Island of Java and Its Immediate Dependencies: Comprising Interesting Details of Batavia, and Authentic Particulars of the Celebrated Poison-tree : Illustrated with a Map of Java, Plan of Batavia, and Chart of the Strait of Madura, from Actual SurveyJ.J. Stockdale, 1812 - 450 páginas |
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Página 133 - Impede the course of the air, by which, in some degree, the putrid effluvia would be dissipated. In the wet season the inconvenience is equal, for...
Página 312 - Tinkjoe, the present residence of the Sultan of Java. It is surrounded on all sides by a circle of high hills and mountains, and the country round it, to the distance of ten or twelve miles from the tree, is entirely barren. Not я tree, nor a shrub, nor even the least plant or grass, is to be seen.
Página 221 - ... the wood that originally covered it, except the fruit of that which has been planted in its room. These impenetrable forests stand in a dead flat, which extends some miles beyond them, and is intersected in many directions by rivers, and more still by canals, which are navigable for small vessels. Nor is this the worst, for the fence of every field and garden is a ditch ; and interspersed among the cultivated ground there are many filthy fens, bogs, and morasses, as well fresh as salt. It is...
Página 248 - Valentyn, who wrote an account of it about the year 1726, says, that in his time there were, within the walls, 1242 Dutch houses, and 1200 Chinese ; and without the walls, 1066 Dutch, and 1240 Chinese, besides 12 arrack .houses, making in all 4760 : But this account appeared to us to be greatly exaggerated, especially with respect to the number of houses within the walls. The streets are spacious and handsome, and the banks of the canals are planted with rows of trees, that make a very pleasing appearance...
Página 346 - On opening into the thorax, I found the heart to have ceased contracting. It was much distended with blood : and the blood in the cavities of the left side was of a scarlet colour. There were two full inspirations after the incision "of the thorax was begun. On irritating the heart with the point of the scalpel, slight contractions took place in the fibres of the appendices of the auricles, but none in any other part.
Página 315 - This however is certain, though it may appear incredible, that from fifteen to eighteen miles round this tree, not only no human creature can exist, but that, in that space of ground, no living animal of any kind has ever been discovered.
Página 168 - ... many of these poor wretches are torn in pieces, or dreadfully wounded, by the enraged animals. • When every thing is in readiness, the cage of the buffalo is first opened at the top, and his back is rubbed with certain leaves, which have the singular quality of occasioning an intolerable degree of pain, and which, from the use they are applied to, have been called buffalo-leaves by our people. The door of the cage is then opened, and the animal leaps out, raging with pain, and roaring most...
Página 344 - Exp. 21. About two grains of this poison were made into a thin paste with water, and inserted into a wound in the thigh of a dog. Twelve minutes afterwards he became languid ; at the end of fifteen minutes, the heart was found to beat very irregularly, and with frequent intermissions ; after this, he had a slight rigor. At the end of twenty minutes, the heart beat very feebly and irregularly ; he was languid ; was sick and vomited ; but the respirations were as frequent and as full as under natural...
Página 134 - ... cleaning them is so managed as to become as great a nuisance as the foulness of the water : for the black mud that is taken from the bottom is suffered to lie upon the banks, that is, in the middle of the street, till it has acquired a sufficient degree of hardness to be made the lading of a boat and carried away. As this mud consists chiefly of human ordure, which is regularly thrown into...
Página 314 - When the hour of their departure arrives, the priest puts them on a long leather cap, with two glasses before their eyes, which comes down as far as their breast, and also provides them with a pair of leather gloves. They are then conducted by the priest, and their friends and relations, about two miles on their journey : here the priest repeats his instructions, and tells them where they are to look, for the tree.