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...line only. The houses are peculiarly picturesque and the result a far more advanced architecture than that of Hindoo or Arab and must have been original. The ridge of their high roofs is shaped like a pair of bullock horns and ends in sharp points. When a wing is added the roof forms a single horn with the usual sharp oint. A large house may have six wings. These people believe that in a remote past there was a great war between two branches of the Malay race to which they belong. After much loss of life and destruction of property they decided to settle their differences by a contest between two bullocks. Their bullocks...