- a variation of Acehnese.
Achinese
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General van Hentsz carried on a successful campaign in 1898 seq., but in 1901, the principal Achinese chiefs on the north coast having surrendered, the pretender-sultan fled to the Gajoes, a neighbouring inland people.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
I did not, on the occasion of my first visit, see anything of the Achinese.
From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by Train, George Francis
The Achinese differ much in their persons from the other Sumatrans, being in general taller, stouter, and of darker complexions.
From The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by Marsden, William
The Achinese manners prevail among the two former; but the last resemble the Battas, from whom they are divided by a range of mountains.
From The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by Marsden, William
When our things were stowed away, we with the Achinese entered with joy into our new frigate, and launched off from the shore.
From In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" by Kloss, C. Boden
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