What is "madura"

Usage examples of "madura".

Bali, Lomboc, Madura or Sumbawa--all islands smaller than Java, and having therefore an appearance of claim to the term.

Dauphin Chart, showing part of Java, Madura, Bali, Lomboc, and Sumbawa through which protrudes Cape York Peninsula.

Finding that in Sunda Nusa is the ordinary, and in Java the ceremonial, word for island, while to the eastward and northward not Nusa, but Pulo and other equivalents are used for that word, and, remembering that Luca Antara was an alternative name for the Island of Madura, which lies close to the east coast of Java itself, I reverted to the description of Luca Antara given by the native prince Chiaymasiuro and by P.

The island itself was described as six hundred leagues in circuit, and containing well-peopled cities and towns, which is all in accordance with the real description of Madura, nor can we find any other island presenting such elements of identity.

By and by I went to him, which knew well enough all the matter, as being monished by like precept in the night: for the night before as he dressed the flowers and garlands about the head of the god Osiris, he understood by the mouth of the image which told the predestinations of all men, how he had sent a poore man of Madura, to whom he should minister his sacraments, to the end hee should receive a reward by divine providence, and the other glory, for his vertuous studies.

I expect great things from Trichinopoly, Madura and a few places I could name.

Minachiamman, Thurgai Local goddess of Madura in India, she incarnated as a little girl to revenge herself on a king who dared to close her temples.

Planting of the new strain took place on Java, Sumatra and Madura islands.

Freyr reached its maximum glory, this land would become parched and form a sector of the Madura Desert, traversed by nations as yet a part of futurity unglimpsed.

Caillaud, endeavoured to reduce the important fortress and town of Madura, the French, under M.

Then he returned to Madura, and, after an unsuccessful assault, made himself master of it by capitulation.

Curonal, Madura, and Hanumatha divided the auxiliary shift work with the other, non-Zangian pilots recruited from the militia to provide adequate cover.

Java and Madura are two of the richest of the group and have a population of more than 30,000,000.

Benefiting by the delay which was caused before Dupleix, owing to the absence of his best troops at Hyderabad, could collect an army, Cope laid siege to Madura, but was defeated and had to abandon his guns.

By this time the attacks, which the English from Trichinopoli and Madura had made upon the Mysoreans, had compelled the latter to make peace, and recall their army, which was still hovering in the neighbourhood of Pondicherry.