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

He shook his angry old arm at Wan Lingga, shouted a withering curse, took one sad look at his blazing roof-tre ...

cover his nakedness. It was a miserable, and withal a tragic death, but not ill fitted to one who had staked every ...

UN MAUVAIS QUART D'HEURE ...

Ere the moon has climbed the mountain, ere the rocks are ribbed with light, When the downward-dipping tails a ...

one of my listeners was at last inclined to show some interest, launched out with renewed vigour, until ...

began to come back again. You know their way. First a couple of men came and looked at us. Then ...

the earth, and hast taken for thy dwelling-place the land which is beneath the earth! Fire have we given t ...

tapioca has gone to your head." '"No, but I am serious," said Juggins, "I mean to have that baby ...

'I always take books with me, as you know, when I go into the jungle, and I remember that that e ...

Sâkai hag. She was stark naked, and in the clear moonlight I could see her long pendulous breasts, and the ...

tell it to you here, in a civilised house, but at the time the sight of that weird figure dancing in th ...

had vanished into the jungle like a shadow. Juggins had missed her, he was always a shockin ...

[13] Close season = From November to February, when the rivers on the East Coast are closed to traf ...

UP COUNTRY The days are hot and damp, and my legs are stiff with cramp, And the office punkahs creak! And I'd g ...

understands, and which, in spite of all its hardships, he has learned to love. The great wheel of progress, l ...

as a matter of course, were made up of these things only. The instinct of the race is to see life thr ...

fall, howling dismally the while, in their frantic efforts to fly his presence. He is Frankenstein's monster, y ...

For the Christian riles and the Aryan smiles, And he weareth the Christian down; And the end of that fight is a ...

in the position of the native, with whom he is dealing, an instinctive and instantaneous app ...

men, who, never having lived their lives, cannot expect to have more than a surface knowledge of t ...