Sumatran Sentence Examples

Eventually, in 1641, a joint attack was made by the Achinese and the Dutch, but the latter, not the people of the sturdy little Sumatran kingdom, became the owners of the coveted port.

The two rare Sumatran tiger cubs at Paignton Zoo have received their first vet check.

Tobacco culture, which declined after 1860 on account of the competition of Cuba and Sumatra, has revived since 1885 through the introduction of Cuban and Sumatran seed; the product of 1907 (6,937,500 lb) was more than six times that of 1899, the product in 1899 (1,125,600 lb) being more than twice that of 1889 (470,443 lb), which in turn was more than twenty times that for 1880 (21,182 lb)-the smallest production recorded for many decades.

Many of these tribes have retained their pristine paganism, but many others it is certain have adopted the Mahommedan religion and have been assimilated by the subsequent and stronger wave of Sumatran immigrants.

The successful production of cigar tobaccos from Cuban and Sumatran seed was a development of the late 19th century.

This group or genus is represented at the present day only by the Sumatran rhinoceros, Rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus) sumatrensis, with its sub-species.

The Sumatran rhinoceros differs from the Javanese in having two horns, like the African variety.

The Sumatran hare (Lepus netscheri), discovered in 1880, adds a second species to the Lepus nigricollis, the only hare previously known in the Malay Archipelago.

Many of the Sumatran forms which do not occur in Java are found in the Malay Peninsula.

A remarkable feature of the Sumatran flora is the great variety of trees that vie with each other in stature and beauty, and as a timber-producing country the island ranks high even among the richly wooded lands of the archipelago.

As far as is known, Sumatran civilization and culture are of Hindu origin; and it is not improbable that the island was the first of all the archipelago to receive the Indian immigrants who played so important a part in the history of the region.

The journey would take me straight through France to Germany on a mission to collect a one-year-old, male Sumatran orangutan called Aris.

Between 1984 and 1991, 32 Sumatran rhinos were taken from the wild in Indonesia to supply zoos in the USA.

Asian elephant, Sumatran rhinoceros, orangutan, and tiger populations are all declining because palm oil plantations are encroaching on their habitats.

The symbol of the Zoo, which was an elephant, will now be the Sumatran tiger.