. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. TATA BVBUK-TALA3I. their luxuriant verdure. The Pangeran owned rice-fields,partly inherited, partly purchased, which he informed mewere worth £20,000. He reckoned, however, that his income,from cotton and coffee and other fruits, but principally frombuffaloes, was greater than from his rice-fields. The houses of the Ogan people were all richly carved, andthe ornamentation is said to be peculiar to their own TATA SIMBAR AXD TATA AW AX. The Semindo men (a district lying about
. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. TATA BVBUK-TALA3I. their luxuriant verdure. The Pangeran owned rice-fields,partly inherited, partly purchased, which he informed mewere worth £20,000. He reckoned, however, that his income,from cotton and coffee and other fruits, but principally frombuffaloes, was greater than from his rice-fields. The houses of the Ogan people were all richly carved, andthe ornamentation is said to be peculiar to their own TATA SIMBAR AXD TATA AW AX. The Semindo men (a district lying about a days journeyto the west) are credited with the invention of the designs;but the Palembangers, who are famous workers in wood, aregenerally the builders, and accommodate each district withthe style of tata or ornamentation peculiar to itself, whichit has retained for generations. The accompanying sketcheswill illustrate the designs most in vogue. On the lowermost
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