The Investigator

THE

INVESTIGATOR;

OR,

Quarterly Magazine.

VOL. III.

JULY AND OCTOBER, 1821.

"Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things
are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever
things are of good report."

EDITED BY

THE REV. WILLIAM BENGO' COLLYER, D.D.,.

LL. D., F.A.S.,

THE REV. THOMAS RAFFLES, LL. D.,

(OF LIVERPOOL),

AND

JAMES BALDWIN BROWN, ESQ., LL. D.

LONDON:

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1821.

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JULY, 1821.

A Short Account of the Battas, a Race of Cannibals in the

Interior of Sumatra.

We had intended to commence the present number of
our work with some brief memoirs, in the form of an ex-
tended obituary, of a few of the most celebrated persons

who died in the course of the last year: this intention, we

have, however, been induced to abandon, by the arrival,

just as these memoirs were going to press, of a volume of

"Malayan Miscellanies," the first book ever printed in the

island of Sumatra; and from its pages we shall fill up the

two sheets left for matter, which we should despair of ren

dering as interesting, and which, certainly, could not be

as new to our readers. The following are the contents

of this curious volume, presented by SIR THOMAS STAM-

FORD RAFFLES, Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen, to one

of the editors of the Investigator, who, together with his

colleagues, has already been greatly indebted to his kind-