Javans

The Javans are a stout and warlike people, well armed with swords, targets, and daggers, all of their own manufacture, and are very curious and ingenious, both in the fashion of their weapons, and in giving them an excellent temper.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. Robert Kerr 1784

Solomons with grizzled locks fantastically bedizened; Papuans, feline Javans, Dyaks of hill and shore; hook-nosed Phoenicians,

The Moon Pool 2004

Javans of the present day either to their ancient paganism, or to

History of the Moors of Spain M. Florian

On, on, and on I pushed, not stopping even to look at the glorious, broad-winged moths flitting before, and sure that each next moment must reveal the palm-thatched huts of the Javans.

Bushed 1911

This head of bush must be a narrow point projecting from the main forest, this little opening the mouth of a short-cut of the Javans to town.

Bushed 1911

When, however, the general hunt began -- when the Dutch garrison turned out with trumpets and cutlasses, some party would eventually question the Javans.

Bushed 1911

"They followed the line of least resistance, those little Javans, when they cut this trail," I thought, persisting.

Bushed 1911

For the past hour I had been calling, as I ran, at the top of my voice, hoping to reach the ears of the Javans -- a perfectly useless exertion as far as any hope of answer was concerned.

Bushed 1911

In conducting him to the house of the Society, they shewed him, as he passed along, the ruins of their houses; and told him, sighing, “that if he had not left them, they had been preserved from the fury of the Javans, as they had formerly been protected from the barbarians of Achen.”

The Works of John Dryden Dryden, John, 1631-1700 1808

The country is best inhabited in the central and mountainous parts, where the people live independent, and in some measure secure from the inroads of their eastern neighbours, the Javans, who, from about Palembang and the Straits, frequently attempt to molest them.

The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795