Panton Malayo (Malay Pantun) has 43 stanzas in Malay. Image reproduced from Panton Malaijoe dan Portugees. Courtesy of Museu Nacional de Arqueologia and Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda.

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Other texts have a moral undertone, using various rhetoric strategies to reflect on society and human behaviour. The untitled sequence F is one such case. As seen in the excerpt below, the text is both metaphorical and explicit in denouncing the...

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