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

Study, trade, the skill of the artisan, 'and fruitful strifes and rivalries of peace,' these are the ...

Trĕnggânu love religious and learned discussions of all kinds, and most of them: When young, do eagerly freque ...

appearance is subtle, and to one who is not used to Malays, the natives of Pahang, Kĕlantan ...

detected or suspected burglars and robbers; in vain have all sorts of stratagems been adopted by trave ...

when seated, the knee-caps are often exposed, even in the King's Bâlai,—a practice that wo ...

and, as they love their little ones dearly, they often live with the same woman all the days ...

Footnotes: [5] Kêchek ânak Mălâka; bûal ânak Mĕnangkâbau; tîpu ânak Rămbau; bidaäh ânak Trĕnggânu; ...

THE EXPERIENCES OF RÂJA HAJI HAMID I've spent my life in war and strife, And now I'm waxing old; I've planned ...

kris, the "Chinese Axe." I never felt the grip of poverty in those times, for my supplies were ever ...

'Many were affrighted, some laughed, some hesitated, but none did as I bade them. "Dogs and pigs!" I ...

After a space he became calmer, for though the thought of his troubles is often present to the mind of a ...

count the coins.' 'They might have done that without killing the Chinaman,' I said. 'It is true,' rejoined ...

THE BATTLE OF THE WOMEN Woman is the lesser man, and all her passions matched with mine, Are as moonlight unto ...

the Spring of the year; and the King and his favourite concubines had betaken themselves up-river to snare turt ...

opium pipe. Tŭngku Aminâh was thus left at liberty to do whatsoever she wished; and accordingly, at ...

were all so marvellously noisy, brave, and defiant, that, in spite of an occasional girlish giggle from o ...

that I should get burned out also,—suffering, as the Malays says, like the woodpecker in the ...

Aminâh and her brother, Tŭngku Indut. ...

IN COCK-PIT AND BULL-RING There's joy in all sport, no matter the sort, In each game that is fought for and ...

people of the villages, by which they pass, make haste to push the raft out again into mid-stream, sh ...