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

inquiry, I discovered what the ancient chief really intended. His suggestion was that the blood-money should ...

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THE VAULTING AMBITION Adown the stream, whence mist like steam Arises in early morning, 'Mid shout and sin ...

The people of Pahang were ever lawless, warlike folk, and the Malacca Râjas, who seem to have been a m ...

At the time of which I write, the then To’ Râja of Jĕlai was an aged man, cursed by the possession o ...

public, they were accompanied by pages bearing betel boxes, swords, and silken umbrellas, as is the manner of M ...

on his journey up river. The Pĕkan Râjas had carefully collected them man by man as they followed in the w ...

feelings about abusing hospitality, and a meal, come by it how you may, is a meal, and as such is we ...

still following his fallen fortunes. As he lay on his bed of boughs, under a hastily improvised shelter of ...

would, sooner or later, be forced to purchase opium, and no sooner had the messenger presented himsel ...

paddles. For two hundred odd miles they bore this present to their King, down all the glorious reaches of ...

'ONE MORE UNFORTUNATE' ...

For the gods very subtly fashion Madness with sadness upon earth: Not knowing in any wise compassion, Nor holdi ...

these uncleanly places, however, you pass through a district dotted with scattered Malay habita ...

pall from repetition, and is otherwise liable to be driven into the ground. He will ask for the same story, ...

hair's breadth, and without appearing to move an eyelash. The bridegroom is conducted to the house of his b ...

fitting that I should live. Therefore I did it.' And until she died, about an hour later, this, and thi ...

to fearlessly carry it into execution, dying with a lie on her lips, which should conceal her real reaso ...

AMONG THE FISHER FOLK A palm-leaf sail that stretches wide, A sea that's running strong, A boat that ...

less dazzling than that of day, or when the thousand wonders of the southern stars gaze fixedly upo ...