--which, however, with so cowardly a people,
is more likely to be noisy than violent,--and all such sinful sports as
cock-fighting, bull fights, gambling, and the like, are forbidden by law
to the people of Trengganu. In spite of all this, however, the natives
of this State do not really lead lives in any degree more clean than is
customary among other Malays. Their morals are, for the most part, those
of the streets of London after eleven o'clock on a Saturday night.

It is as an artisan, however, that the Trengganu Malay really excels.
The best products of their looms, the brass and nickel utensils, some of
the weapons, and most of the woodwork fashioned in Trengganu, are the
best native made wares, of their kind, in the Peninsula, and the extreme
ingenuity with which they imitate the products of other States, or
Islands of the Archipelago, is quite unrivalled in this part of the
world. Silk _sarongs_, in close imitation of those woven in Pahang and
Kelantan, are made cheap, and sold as the genuine articles. Bales of the
white turban cloths, flecked with gold thread, which are so much worn by
men who have returned from the _Haj_, are annually exported to Mecca,
where they are sold, as articles of real Arabic manufacture, to the
confiding pilgrims. All these silks and cloths fade and wear out with
inconceivable rapidity, but, until this occurs, the purchaser is but
rarely able to detect the fraud of which he has been a victim. Weapons,
too, are made in exact imitation of those produced by the natives of
Celebes or Java, and it is often not until the silver watering on the
blades begins to crack and peel--like paint on a plank near a
furnace--that their real origin becomes known. At the present time, the
artisans of Trengganu are largely engaged in making exact imitations of
the local currency, to the exceeding dolor of the Sultan, and with no
small profit to themselves.

In appearance, the Trengganu Malay is somewhat larger boned, broader
featured, and more clumsily put together than is the typical Pahang
Malay. He also dresses somewhat differently, and it is easy to detect
the nationality of a Trengganu man, even before he opens his mouth in
speech. The difference in appearance is subtle, and to one who is not
used to Malays, the natives of Pahang, Kelantan, and Trengganu have
nothing to distinguish them one from another, whereas, after a year or
two on the East Coast, what at first are almost imperceptible
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