Lexicographical Neighbors of Campongs
Literary usage of Campongs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Sumatra: Containing an Account of the ... Native Inhabitants by William Marsden (1784)
"They fortify their campongs with large ramparts of earth, halfway up which they
plant ... in their campongs, and therefore, leaving a few to guard them, ..."
2. Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society (1896)
"There are Malay campongs (villages) scattered over the island, made up of a few
rude bamboo huts, and two or three clusters of fruit-trees. 1875 THOMSON. ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1874)
"... Imam, or Datu; those of the larger campongs are sometimes called Radjah. ...
and Malays the campongs are more independent. The income of the ACHEEN, ..."
4. A Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands & Adjacent Countries by John Crawfurd (1856)
"His party had been three months absent, during which time, besides detached huts,
he had destroyed seventeen campongs, with the whole of tho men and old ..."
5. Our Tropical Possessions in Malayan India: Being a Descriptive Account of by John Cameron (1865)
"On the eastern side are the various campongs, or districts, bordering one on ...
These campongs are chiefly composed of dwelling-houses used by the natives, ..."
6. Political and Statistical Account of the British Settlements in the Straits by Thomas John Newbold (1839)
"Of settlers in villages, or campongs or lands. Should such settlers refuse to
obey the owner of the place where they reside, or revile or point f at him ..."
7. A Collection of Treaties, Engagements, and Sanads Relating to India and by India Foreign and Political Dept (1892)
"... of campongs, do not act justly towards their constituents, they are permitted
to come and state their grievances themselves to the Resident at the Rooma ..."
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