Tales of the Malayan Coast _ From Penang t - Rounsevelle Wildman

Wahpering’s bungalow, other than being larger and roomier than the ordinary bungalow, was exactly like all oth ...

against the opium of the Chinese and the tobacco of the European. As soon as we shook hands ceremoniously with ...

larger!” The old fellow shook his head sadly, and looked at me reproachfully. “Tidah! Tidah!” (No, no.) “Raja ...

and a pair of ring-doves. Motioning me to one side, he whispered, the while looking shyly at the mistress, “R ...

The Sarong ...

The Malay’s Chief Garment No one knows who invented the sarong. When the great Sir Francis Drake skirted the beaut ...

One day we crawled up the narrow, rickety ladder that led into the two by four opening of old Wahpering’s palm-shaded ...

falling to her knees and fastened down the front to the silver girdle with golden brooches. Her toes would ...

A history of one, like the history of the other, embraces all that is tragical or romantic in Malayan s ...

The Kris ...

And how the Malays use it In an old dog-eared copy of Monteith’s Geography, I remember a picture of a half-d ...

not look half as dangerous as a Turkish cimeter; yet it has a history that would put that of the tomaha ...

The making of the kris “He fashions it from well-hammered and well-tempered Celebes iron” The maker of the kris ...

them from well-hammered and well-tempered Celebes iron, works of art and models for futurity. He is exceedin ...

independence. ...

The White Rajah of Borneo ...

The Founding of Sarawak In the East Indian seas, by Europeans and natives alike, two names are revered with ...

—and turned inquiringly to the naked punkah-wallah, who stood just outside in the shade of the wide veranda, ...

he never took his eyes from the course. He was secure on his throne now, but I could not but wonder if th ...

The Dutch, contented with the fabulously rich island of Java and its twenty-six millions of mild-mannered n ...