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

once its masters, its slaves, and its prey. When they have at last been fairly beaten by the monsoon, ...

the working hands in each crew, and to the owners of the crafts and nets, are all determined by ancient cus ...

The beaches are covered with a wondrous diversity of animal and vegetable growths thrown up and d ...

gently agitated fingers of a human hand are pressed against the monster's side just below the fins, and fis ...

bait. Some are worked round schools of fish by a single boat, which flies in its giant circle, pro ...

trailing glistening spoon-baits in their wake. The fish were extraordinarily active, itself a pretty sure ...

painfully they baled her out, and then lay for many hours too inert to move. Late on the third day th ...

cluster closely. Innumerable fishing crafts lie at anchor, or are beached along the shore; gaily-dressed natives pass ...

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THE STORY OF BÂYAN THE PAROQUET Said one among them, 'Surely not in vain My substance from the common Earth ...

Among the Carrabees. The story of Bâyan the Paroquet, which I am about to tell, is another rather s ...

from village to village, singing it for pay to the unlettered people, to whom these songs and stories r ...

that night, we tied up about half a mile below the capital, at the landing-place which belonged to ...

them. The girl was well born, and had many relatives, so To’ Mûda Long could not make an open scanda ...

to thee; it was the boys who were unmannerly, and thy servant, being an old man, did reprove them!' 'It is n ...

A TALE OF A THEFT ...

The voice of your complaining At the little ills you know, The crumpled leaf that's paining, At the soil t ...

In one of the States on the East Coast, there lived a Râja, who, though he was not the ruler of the ...

no one ever cleans out the cages, or takes any steps to prevent the condition of the captives from being s ...

The prisoner in the cage to his left was little more than a skeleton when Talib first entered the pr ...