In Pinang and Singapore for cultivated the price is 65 to 70 dollars.
In the course of four or five years more, Pinang alone will more than double the present quantity of nutmegs and mace produced in the Straits, and the produce of cloves will be more than tripled.
In Pinang and Province Wellesley it has only been observed within the last two years, and it is believed to have come from Keddah.
It is only when grown as exotics, as in the British settlements of Pinang and Singapore, that they require cultivation, and that a more careful and expensive one than any other produce of the soil.
Westward of Pinang there are no plantations, looking at the subject in a mercantile point of view.
The best pepper certainly does not grow in the richest soils, for the peppers of Java and Palembang are the worst of the Archipelago, and that of Pinang and the west coast of Sumatra are the best.
In Sumatra a full grown plant has been known to produce seven pounds; in Pinang the yield is much more.
The Nicobar and Lancavi Islands used partly to supply the Pinang market with this indispensable article; but their depopulation has greatly reduced the quantity.
The island of Pinang is estimated to contain 160 square miles, nearly the whole of which, with the exception perhaps of summits of the hills, is well adapted to spice growing.
At Malacca andPinang it shares attention with the more profitable spices.
A large supply of nutmeg and clove plants arrived atPinang in 1802, from the Molucca Islands.
Great was my surprise to find myself facing an attractive little pasang-grahan, lying on grassy, level ground at almost the same height as the tops of the cocoanut and pinang palms on the other side of the river.
At Pinang the small population turned out in full force, standing picturesquely near the mosque on an open space between the cocoanut-trees that grew on the high river-bank.
As long as it takes a pinang (areca) to become old?
Then the medicine women are whirled round in the cone, and one by one they fall into a faint, to be recovered by fanning with the pinang blossom.
He stopped the annual payment to Majapahit of one jar of pinang juice, a useless commodity though troublesome to collect.
One of the women goes to the patient, who, clad in black, sits alone on a mat, and brings her a pinangblossom to hold, covering her head with a cloth.
Rice is thrown on her and she is fanned with the pinang blossoms, but the women who attend to her only share her fate and also become senseless.
The Borneo coal-mines would also serve to keep the Hong Kong, Singapore, and Pinang stations supplied with fuel for Steam Vessels carrying the Mails between Hong Hong and Suez direct.
The Malay name for the betel, the aromatic leaves of which are chewed along with the pinang or areca nut, a little pure lime, and various spices.
As one lands on Pinang one is impressed even before reaching the shore by the blaze of color in the costumes of the crowds which throng the jetty.
Of all my wild adventures past This frantic feat will prove the last," for in a fortnight I propose to be at Pinang on my way to conventional Ceylon, and the beloved "wilds" will be left behind.
We sailed from Pinangin glorious sunshine at an early hour this afternoon, and have exchanged the sparkling calms of the Malacca Straits for the indolent roll of the Bay of Bengal.
Although there are so many plantations, a great part of Pinang is uncleared, and from the peak most of it looks like a forest.
Pinang came into our possession in 1786, through the enterprise of Mr. Light, a merchant captain, who had acquired much useful local knowledge by trading to Kedah and other Malay States.
It was very hot below, but when I went up on deck it was cool, and in the colored dawn we were just running up to the island-group of which Pinang is the chief, and reached the channel which divides it from Leper Island just at sunrise.
Both parties flew to arms, and were aided with guns, ammunition, military stores, and food from Pinang, Pinang Chinese having previously supplied the capital needed for working the mines.
Dismal as this place looks, an immense trade in imports and exports is done there; and all the tin from the rich mines of the district is sent thence to Pinang for transhipment.
This spread upon leaves to dry, made into cakes, and afterwards folded up in a peculiar vegetable substance called upih, which is the sheath that envelopes the branch of the pinang tree where it is inserted in the stem.
The betel-nut or pinang (Areca catechu) before mentioned is a considerable article of traffic to the coast of Coromandel or Telinga, particularly from Achin.
All the preparation consists in spreading on the sirih leaf a small quantity of the chunam and folding it up with a slice of the pinang nut.
We set out from Pulo Punchong and went in boats to the quallo (mouth or entrance) ofPinang Suri river, which is in the bay, about ten or twelve miles south-east of Punchong.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pinang" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
