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

Sultan. The wily Sultan recognized that in this stranger he had found a man who would be able to coll ...

white companions and Dyak sailors, he gave battle first to the weaker strongholds, gradually attaching t ...

In 1848 Rajah Brooke decided to visit his old home in England, and ask his countrymen for teachers and miss ...

for the “Life of the Rajah of Sarawak.” There is much in this “Life” that might be read by our states ...

I instinctively raised my hat as we glided over the phosphorescent waters of the harbor, for in my thoughts ...

Amok! ...

A Malayan Story If you run amok in Malaya, you may perhaps kill your enemy or wound your dearest friend, but ...

He smiled contentedly, for his mind was made up. He would not ask to be made master of the Sultan’s marvell ...

Up the bamboo ladder and into the little door,—so low that even Anak, with her scant twelve years, was ...

father had given up all hope of seeing him a hadji; and besides, the captain of the launch and the old punghulo ...

“Tell me about the Prince.” Her mood had changed. Her eyes were wide open, and her face all aglow. She ...

He paused a moment, trying dimly to comprehend the question, and then answered slowly,— “Because it is writte ...

Anak was in the crowd with her father, the old chief, and her affianced, Noa. She had put on her silk sarong ...

“It was good of you to wear the sarong I gave you, and your best kabaya and the flowers I like in ...

would fly into a passion, and run sobbing up the ladder of her home. Noa became moody in turn. His father ...

many cousins, had kicked the ragga ball, while the elders sat about and watched and talked and chewed betel-nu ...

“Anak!” he said slowly, drawing closer to her side. “Anak, I will be a true husband to you. You shall be ...

“O Allah, the all-merciful and loving kind!” he sang, as the blows rained upon his face and breast. “O Allah, ...

have befriended. The laws are as immutable as fate. ...

Lepas’s Revenge ...