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

I was born and bred. He desired her, and she loved him, and now he has taken her to wife, I being as on ...

craving for one breath of fresh air grew and grew and gathered strength, until it became an overmastering l ...

and its ballrooms, its societies for the prevention of cruelty, its missionaries, its discontented exiled European ...

IN A CAMP OF THE SĔMANGS The paths are rough, the trails are blind The Jungle People tread; The yams are scarce ...

The Sĕmang are the survivors of a very ancient race of negrits, remnants of which are still ...

should be lost, and then the naked aborigines gathered round and feasted. These jungle dwellers lack sa ...

one have seen us: I, the European, the white man, belonging to one of the most civilised races in the Old ...

also that they entered into a compact with the Malays of Lâsak to aid in hunting us through the woods ...

is at the full they dance naked, in the grassy places near the salt-licks, where the passing to-and-fro of ...

undoubtedly have been killed by some one or something, and perhaps the old- world tradition of the Amazons, ...

'HIS HEART'S DESIRE' They wrench my back on a red-hot rack, They comb my nerves with wire, They poison ...

this was enough to show the White Man that something was to be learned, seen, or experienced by going to ...

had reached the shelter in the stern. The girl and the White Man followed, and they all three squatted down ...

within the palace. They are always ready for anything from 'pitch-and-toss to manslaughter,' and no Malay king ...

girls within the palace, and the town which lay around it, who cast loving eyes upon them. Âwang, however, ...

self-respecting Malay, brought up in the poisonous atmosphere of an Independent Malay State, could admit ...

upon the altar of a woman's ungovernable vanity. One night, when the yellow dawn was splashing the gray ...

going in one, and his son Tŭngku Saleh in the other. In the latter boat sat Tûan Bângau, and about a dozen ...

These were the last words spoken while the dawn was breaking, as the White Man clambered over the side ...

A NIGHT OF TERROR ...