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- noun Plural form of
Rejang .
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Examples
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Deity: name for the, borrowed by the Rejangs from the Malays.
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Rejangs and Battas of Sumatra, or the Togals of the Philippines.
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
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Various circumstances induce me on this occasion to give the preference to the Rejangs, though a nation of but small account in the political scale of the island.
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Their writing for common purposes is, like that already described in speaking of the Rejangs, upon pieces of bamboo.
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The country of the Rejangs is divided to the north-west from the kingdom of Anak Sungei (of which Moco-moco is the capital) by the small river of
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There is no word in the languages of the island which properly and strictly signifies law; nor is there any person or class of persons among the Rejangs regularly invested with a legislative power.
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Sungei Lamo, chief of the Rejangs, a very civilised Mahometan, and whose ancestors for some generations were of the same faith, seemed offended, in a conversation I had with him, at my supposing him (as he is usually considered) a Malay, and replied with some emotion, "Malayo tidah, sir; orang ulu betul sayo."
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The ancient and genuine religion of the Rejangs, if in fact they ever had any, is scarcely now to be traced; and what principally adds to its obscurity, and the difficulty of getting information on the subject, is that even those among them who have not been initiated in the principles of
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The children among the Rejangs have generally a name given to them by their parents soon after their birth, which is called namo daging.
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The terms of the jujur, or equivalent for wives, is the same here, nearly, as with the Rejangs.
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