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Title

Bukit Sembawang; a rubber estate [by] E. E. Shepherd [and] S. R. Shepherd.

Author

Shepherd, E. E.

Publication

Melbourne, Canberra [etc.] Cheshire [1968]

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Shepherd, S. R.,

Description

29 p. illus. (part col.), diagrs. (part col.), graphs, maps (part col.), tables.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Field studies in Southeast Asia

Subject

• Bukit Sembawang Rubber Group

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction to Jose de Acosta's Historia Natural y Moral de las Indias -- Printing permission granted by King Philip II -- Printing permission granted by Gonzalo Davila, Society of Jesus -- Content approval granted by Fray Luis de Leon -- Dedication to the infanta Dona Isabel Clara Eugenia de Austria -- Paper tax ordered by Christobal de Leon -- Book I -- 1. Of the opinion held by some authors that the heavens did not extend to the New World -- 2. How the heavens are round everywhere and rotate around themselves -- 3. How Holy Writ gives us to understand that the earth is in the midst of the universe -- 4. In which a response is given to what is alleged in Scripture against the heavens being round -- 5. Of the shape and appearance of the heavens in the New World -- 6. How the world has both land and sea in the direction of both poles -- 7. Which refutes the opinion of Lactantius, who said that there were no antipodes -- 8. Of Saint Augustine's motives in denying the antipodes -- 9. Of Aristotle's opinion of the New World and what it was that caused him to deny it -- 10. How Pliny and most of the ancients believed the same as Aristotle -- 11. How some mention of this New World is found in the ancients -- 12. What Plato believed concerning these West Indies -- 13. How some have believed that in Holy Scripture Ophir is this Peru of ours -- 14. What Tarshish and Ophir mean in Scripture -- 15. Of the prophecy of Abdias, which some say concerned these Indies -- 16. How the first men could have come to the Indies and how they did not sail purposely to these parts -- 17. Of the properties and remarkable virtue of the lodestone in navigation and how the ancients did not know of it -- 18. Which answers those who believe that in ancient times the ocean was crossed as in our day -- 19. How it may be believed that the first inhabitants of the Indies came there brought by storms and against their will -- 20. How it is more reasonable to believe that the first dwellers in the Indies came by land -- 21. How wild beasts and domestic animals crossed to the lands of the Indies -- 22. How the race of Indians did not come by way of Atlantis, as some believe -- 23. How the opinion of many, who believe that the Indians come from the race of the Jews, is false -- 24. Why there is no sure way to establish the Indians' origin -- 25. What the Indians are wont to say about their origin -- Book II -- 1. Which will deal with the nature of the equinoctial line, or equator -- 2. What caused the ancients to have no doubt that the Torrid Zone was uninhabitable -- 3. How the Torrid Zone is very wet, and how in this the ancients were much mistaken -- 4. How outside the Tropics there is more rain when the sun draws father away, which is the reverse of the Torrid Zone -- 5. How in the Tropics the rains come in summer, or time of heat, and the calculation of winter and summer -- 6. How the Torrid Zone has a great abundance of water and vegetation, though Aristotle denies it -- 7. Which deals with the reason why the sun, outside the Tropics, causes rain when it is most distant, and in the Tropics the reverse, when it is nearest -- 8. How what is said of the Torrid Zone must be understood -- 9. How the Torrid Zone is not excessively hot but only moderately so -- 10. How the Torrid Zone's heat is tempered by the abundance of rain and the brevity of the days -- 11. How in addition to the causes mentioned there are other reasons why the Torrid Zone is temperate, especially the proximity of the Ocean Sea -- 12. How the higher lands are colder and the reason for this -- 13. How cool winds are the chief reason why the Torrid Zone is temperate -- 14. How life in the equatorial region is very agreeable -- Book III -- 1. How the natural history of the Indies is pleasant and enjoyable -- 2. Of winds and their differences and properties and causes in general -- 3. Of some properties of the winds that blow in the New World -- 4. How easterly winds always blow in the Torrid Zone and outside it both westerlies and easterlies -- 5. Of the differences between easterlies and southwesterlies and other kinds of winds -- 6. Why there is always an east wind for sailing in the Torrid Zone -- 7. Why westerly winds are more usually found when leaving the Torrid Zone, at higher latitudes -- 8. Of exceptions to be found in the rule just expressed and the winds and calms that exist on sea and land -- 9. Of some wonderful effects of winds in parts of the Indies -- 10. Of the ocean the surrounds the Indies and of the Northern and Southern Seas -- 11. Of the Strait of Magellan and how it was crossed on its southern side -- 12. Of the strait that some say exists in Florida -- 13. Of the properties of the Strait of Magellan -- 14. Of the ebb and flow of the Ocean Sea in the Indies -- 15. Of the different fish and methods of fishing of the Indians -- 16. Of the pools and lakes that are found in the Indies -- 17. Of various fountains and springs -- 18. Of rivers -- 19. Of the general nature of the earth in the Indies -- 20. Of the properties of the land of Peru -- 21. Of the reasons given as to why it does not rain on the plains -- 22. Of the properties of New Spain and the islands and the other lands -- 23. Of undiscovered regions and the difference of a whole day between east and west -- 24. Of volcanoes or vents of fire -- 25. Why the fire and smoke of these volcanoes persists for so long -- 26. Of earthquakes -- 27. How earth and sea clasp one another -- Book IV -- 1. Of the three kinds of mixtures that will be dealt with in this history -- 2. Of the abundance of metals that exist in the Indies -- 3. Of the kind of land where metals are found, and how in the Indies all the metals are not worked, and how the Indians used metals -- 4. Of the gold that is produced in the Indies -- 5. Of the silver of the Indies -- 6. Of the mountain of Potosi and its discovery -- 7. Of the wealth that has been taken, and is still being taken daily, from the mountain of Potosi -- 8. How the mines of Potosi are worked -- 9. How silver ore is refined -- 10. Of the wonderful properties of quicksilver -- 11. Where quicksilver is found and how rich mines of it were discovered in Huancavelica -- 12. How quicksilver is extracted and how silver is refined with its use -- 13. Of the machinery for grinding ore and assaying silver -- 14. Of emeralds -- 15. Of pearls -- 16. Of bread in the Indies, and maize -- 17. Of yucca and cassava, and potatoes and chuno and rice -- 18. Of different roots that grow in the Indies -- 19. Of different kinds of greenstuffs and vegetables, and of those called cucumbers, and pineapples and Chilean strawberries, and plums -- 20. Of aji, or Indies pepper -- 21. Of the plantain -- 22. Of cocoa and coca -- 23. Of maguey, tunal, and cochineal and of indigo and cotton -- 24. Of mameys and guavas and alligator pears -- 25. Of chicozapote and anomas and capolies -- 26. Of different kinds of fruit trees, and of coconuts and Andes almonds, and Chachapoyas almonds -- 27. Of various flowers, and some trees that bear only flowers, and how the Indians use them -- 28. Of balsam -- 29. Of liquidambar and other oils and gums and drugs that are brought from the Indies -- 30. Of the great forests of the Indies and of cedars and ceibas and other large trees -- 31. Of the plants and fruit trees that have been brought to the Indies from Spain -- 32. Of grapes and vines and olives and mulberries and sugarcane -- 33. Of sheep and cattle -- 34. Of some European animals that the Spaniards found in the Indies and how they might have come -- 35. Of birds that exist in Europe and how they came to the Indies -- 36. How it can be possible that there are animals in the Indies not found in any other part of the world -- 37. Of birds native to the Indies -- 38. Of game animals
• 39. Of micos, or the monkeys of the Indies -- 40. Of the vicunas and tarugas of Peru -- 41. Of alpacas and guanacos and the sheep of Peru -- 42. Of bezoar stones -- Book V -- 1. How the devil's pride and envy have been the cause of idolatry -- 2. Of the kinds of idolatries used by the Indians -- 3. How there is some knowledge of God among the Indians -- 4. Of the first sort of idolatry, that of natural and universal things -- 5. Of the idolatry practiced by the Indians with particular things -- 6. Of another kind of idolatry with the dead -- 7. Of the superstitions that were employed with the dead -- 8. Of the funeral rites that the Mexicans and other nations used -- 9. Of the fourth and last kind of idolatry that the Indians, especially the Mexicans, used with images and statues -- 10. Of a strange kind of idolatry that was practiced by the Mexicans -- 11. How the devil has tried to copy God in methods of sacrifices and of religion and sacraments -- 12. Of the temples that have been found in the Indies -- 13. Of the splendid temples of Mexico -- 14. Of the priests and the offices they performed -- 15. Of the monasteries of virgins that the devil invented for his service -- 16. Of the monasteries of religious that the devil possesses for his superstition -- 17. Of the penances and austerities that the Indians practiced at the devil's behest -- 18. Of the sacrifices the Indians made to the devil, and of what they consisted -- 19. Of the sacrifices of men that they made -- 20. Of the horrible sacrifices of men that the Mexicans performed -- 21. Of another kind of human sacrifice that the Mexicans performed -- 22. How the Indians themselves were exhausted and could not endure the cruelties of their gods -- 23. How the devil has tried to mimic the sacraments of Holy Church -- 24. How the devil tried in Mexico to mimic the feast of Corpus Christi and the communion used by Holy Church -- 25. Of the confession and confessors used by the Indians -- 26. Of the abominable unction used by the Mexican priests and those of other nations and of their sorcerers -- 27. Of other ceremonies and rites of the Indians that are similar to ours -- 28. Of some festivals that the Indians of Cuzco had and how the devil also tried to imitate the mystery of the Holy Trinity -- 29. Of the festival of rejoicing celebrated by the Mexicans -- 30. Of the merchants' festival performed by the Cholulans -- 31. The benefit that can be drawn from an account of the Indians' superstitions -- Book VI -- 1. How the opinion of those who believe that the Indians lack understanding is false -- 2. Of the method of calculating time and the calendar that the Mexicans used -- 3. Of the method of counting years and months used by the Incas -- 4. How no nation of Indians has been found to have the use of letters -- 5. Of the kinds of letters and books that the Chinese use -- 6. Of universities and studies in China -- 7. Of the kinds of letters and writing that the Mexicans used -- 8. Of the memory aids and reckonings used by the Indians of Peru -- 9. Of the order the Indians maintain in their writings -- 10. How the Indians dispatched their messengers -- 11. Of the government and monarchs that they had -- 12. Of the government of the Inca kings of Peru -- 13. Of the distribution that the Incas made of their vassals -- 14. Of the buildings and construction methods of the Incas -- 15. Of the Inca's revenues and the order of tributes he imposed on the Indians -- 16. Of the trades that the Indians learned -- 17. Of the posts and chasquis that the Inca used -- 18. Of the laws and justice and punishments that the Incas imposed and of their marriages -- 19. Of the origin of the Incas, lords of Peru, and their conquests and victories -- 20. Of the first Inca and his successors -- 21. Of Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui and what happened up to the time of Huayna Capac -- 22. Of the great Inca named Huayna Capac -- 23. Of the last successors of the Incas -- 24. Of the kind of commonwealth that the Mexicans had -- 25. Of the different ranks and orders of the Mexicans -- 26. Of the Mexicans' way of fighting and the military orders that they had -- 27. Of the Mexicans' great care and diligence in bringing up their youth -- 28. Of the Indians' dances and festivities -- Book VII -- 1. Why it is important to know of the Indians' deeds, especially those of the Mexicans -- 2. Of the ancient dwellers in New Spain and how the Nahuatlacas came there -- 3. How the six Nahuatlaca clans settled the land of Mexico -- 4. Of the departure of the Mexicans and their route and the founding of Michoacan -- 5. Of what befell them in Malinalco and in Tula and Chapultepec -- 6. Of the war they waged with those of Culhuacan -- 7. Of the founding of Mexico -- 8. Of the rebellion of Tlatelolco and the first king chosen by the Mexicans -- 9. Of the strange tribute paid by the Mexicans to the Azcapotzalcans -- 10. Of the second king and what befell him during his reign -- 11. Of the third king, Chimalpopoca, and of his cruel death and the cause of the war waged by the Mexicans -- 12. Of Izcoatl, the fourth king, and the war against the Tepanecas -- 13. Of the battle the Mexicans fought with the Tepanecas and the great victory they achieved -- 14. Of the war and victory of the Mexicans over the city of Coyoacan -- 15. Of the war and victory that the Mexicans won over the Xochimilcans -- 16. Of Moctezuma, fifth king of the Mexicans, first of this name -- 17. How Tlacaelel refused to be king and the election and deeds of Tizoc -- 18. Of the death of Tlacaelel and the exploits of Axacayatl, seventh king of Mexico -- 19. Of the exploits of Ahuitzotl, eighth king of Mexico -- 20. Of the election of the great Moctezuma, last king of Mexico -- 21. How Moctezuma ordered the service of his household and the war he waged for his coronation -- 22. Of Moctezuma's habits and great state -- 23. Of the strange omens and prodigies that appeared in Mexico before its empire perished -- 24. Of the news that Moctezuma received of the Spaniards who had reached his country and the embassy that he sent them -- 25. Of the Spaniards' entry into Mexico -- 26. Of the death of Moctezuma and the Spaniards' departure from the City of Mexico -- 27. Of some miracles that God has performed in the Indies in favor of the Faith, beyond the merits of those who brought them to pass -- 28. And last. Of the plan ordained by Providence in the Indies for the entry of the Christian religion there.

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