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Preface -- I. Introduction -- II. Preliminary Survey -- III. Consideration of some previous works on Minangkabau and Negri Sembilan -- IV. Theory -- V. Minangkabau Social Organisation -- VI. Minangkabau Political Organisation -- VII. Modern trends in Minangkabau -- VIII. Negri Sembilan Social Organisation -- IX. Negri Sembilan Political Organisation -- X. Modern trends in Negri Sembilan -- XI. Comparison -- XII. Summary, and some wider implications -- Map 1. Minangkabau and Negri Sembilan -- Map 2. Minangkabau and its surroundings -- Map 3. Negri Sembilan and its surroundings -- Map 4. Minangkabau -- Map 5. Negri Sembilan -- Map 6. The distribution of the two adat in Minangkabau -- XIII. Supplementary notes (1980 edition) -- Errata.

The importance of the Portuguese sources for our knowledge of Malayan history has long been recognized. Fortunately, most of them are now available in translation, and thus accessible to historians who have difficulty in reading 16th or 17th century Portuguese.In the first place we should mention the English translations issued by the Hakluyt Society. These are: