ABSTRACT
Universal passion of the Indian islanders for play.—Examples quoted.—Games of hazard.—Chess—Combat of animals. —Cockfighting.—Quail-fighting.—Combat of warlike crickets, &c—Combat of the tiger and buffalo.—Combat of the wild boar with rams and goats-Games of exercise-Tournaments.—The chace.—Manner in which it is followed in Celebes.—In Java.—Love of dancing.—Character of the dances of the Indian islanders—Different descriptions of it.—Intellectual amusements.— The drama.—The Javanese the inventors of the Polynesian drama.—Different descriptions of dramatic exhibitions.—Subjects of the Javanese drama.—Indian islanders passionately fond of dramatic exhibitions.— An improved drama might be successfully introduced among them, as an instrument of civilization.
