In Court and Kampong _ Being Tales and Ske - Sir Hugh Charles Clifford

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BEING TALES & SKETCHES OF NATIVE LIFE IN THE MALAY PENINSULA BY HUGH CLIFFORD LONDON GRANT RICHARDS 48 LEIC ...

My knowledge of all these things was won Ere to gladden my life You came, But the Land I knew, the Deeds sa ...

PREFACE The nineteen tales and sketches, which are enclosed within the covers of this Book, relate to certain ...

the Malays lies in the increase of British influence in the Peninsula, and in the consequent spread of modern ...

CONTENTS As I came through the Desert thus it was, As I came through the Desert. The City of Dreadful Ni ...

14. IN A CAMP OF THE SĔMANGS 171 15. HIS HEART'S DESIRE 182 16. A NIGHT OF TERROR 196 17. IN THE DAYS WHEN THE LA ...

THE EAST COAST The charmed sunset linger'd low adown In the red West: thro' mountain clefts the dale Was seen ...

possible for a European to spend weeks in either of these States without coming into contact with any A ...

an ostensible sign of authority, a warrant and a State spear, both of which were returned to the Râj ...

succeeded in beating down the tyranny of their Chiefs? No answer can be given; but those who know the ...

only modern innovation is an occasional 'caster,' or sea tramp, plying its way up the coast to pick up a p ...

luxuriantly; and over all, during the long hot hours of the day, hangs a silence as of the grave. Thoug ...

shallow indeed they are used as tracks, men wading up them for miles and miles. A river-bed is a path r ...

though they send the bûnga ămas—or golden flower—to Bangkok once in three years. Pahang was placed under ...

the mouth of the Kĕlantan river on State occasions, though the administration of the country is still entirely ...

Annam family. ...

THE PEOPLE OF THE EAST COAST I have eaten your rice and salt. I have drunk the milk of your kin ...

Colonel of a Regiment—who is privileged to 'buck' because his officers cannot attempt to check him. He knows ...