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MALAY SKETCHES

burial, when the moment arrives for carrying the
body to the place of sepulture, the dead man is
given a new name, by which he is ever afterwards
known. That name is chosen with some reference
to his earthly life. Thus, there is Al-merhum or
Merhum Pasir Panjang (that is, "The Sultan who
died at Pasir Panjang"), Merhum Kahar-Allah
The late Sultan to whom God
(" gave strength "),
and so on.
When this King was buried, the name conferred
upon him was Merhum Rafir- Allah, and the meaning
" God him."
is, May pardon
NOTE. Since writing the above, I have read the
following in the Home News :
"In the Lord Mayor's Court on Oct. 14, before
the Assistant Judge and a jury, the case of ' Fischer
v. Brown' was concluded. This (says the Times)
was an action brought by Fischer and Co., a firm
of Bombay merchants, to recover from Messrs.
and on business in
Brown, Saville, Co., who carry
the sum of the
this country, 73, money paid by
to the had
plaintiffs defendants, for which they
received no consideration. It appeared that in July,
the received an order for a
1892, plaintiffs special
which was to be to His
perambulator, given Highness
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