. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. Natural history. 180 A NATUJRALIST'S WANDERINGS excellence that iii any of the others, especially in its Balai, where I was greatly interested in finding what I may call a veritable coat of arms, carved out of an immense block of wood and erected in the central position, where one would expect an object with the significance of a coat of arms to be placed. From what I could learn it had such a significance in the estimation of the chief of the village; for he told me tliat only such
. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. Natural history. 180 A NATUJRALIST'S WANDERINGS excellence that iii any of the others, especially in its Balai, where I was greatly interested in finding what I may call a veritable coat of arms, carved out of an immense block of wood and erected in the central position, where one would expect an object with the significance of a coat of arms to be placed. From what I could learn it had such a significance in the estimation of the chief of the village; for he told me tliat only such villages as could claim origin from some distant village could erect such a carving in their Balai. I am not, however, master enough of the terms of blazonry current in the College of Arms to describe it in fitting language. The shield had double supporters; on each side a tiger rampant. COAT OF ARMS IN THE VILLAGE OP rADJAH-BULAN. bearing on its back a snake defiant, upheld the shield, in whose centre the most prominent quartering was a floral ornament, which might be a sunflower shading two deer, one on each side— the dexter greater than the sinister. Above the floral ornament was a central and to me unintelligible halfmoon-like blazon- ing, but on either side of it was an " ulai lidai" (Chorus of bystanders: " Undoubtedly an ulai lidai "), but of what it was the similitude among created things, beyond suggesting faintly the lineaments of a scorpion, I was not pursuivant enough to recognise; on the sinister of the two, however, was a man " tandacking " (dancing). Below the tips of the conjoined tails of the supporting tigers were two ornate triangles, the upper. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Forbes, Henry O. (Henry Ogg), 1851-1932. New York, Harper
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