...and purchase any thing that is to be had in Palembang. The natives are true Malays, never building a house on dry land if they can find water to set it in, and never going anywhere on foot if they can reach the place in a boat. A considerable portion of the...

...fine curve in a river of the same name. It is said that the natives are true Malays, never building a house on dry land if they can find water to set it in, and never going anywhere on foot if they can reach a place in a boat. Consequently the stream is much...

...fine curve in a river of the same name. It is said that the natives are true Malays, never building a house on dry land if they can find water to set it in, and never going anywhere on foot if they can reach a place in a boat. Consequently the stream is much...

...'The natives are true Malays,' Wallace observed with his typical dry sense of humour, 'never building a house on dry land if they can find water to set it in and never going anywhere on foot if they can reach the place by boat.' Wallace's enquiries about the...

...(and this for theoretical, not practical, reasons), could yet define true Malays as "never building a house on dry land if they can find water to set it in, and never going anywhere on foot if they can reach the place in a boat" (Wallace 1986, 133). What would...