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

The Tale of a Monkey There were many monkeys—I came near saying there were hundreds—in the little ...

I knew that it was all make-believe, so I half closed my eyes and did not move. The chattering stopped. ...

“Tuan see. This monkey very wise,” and he made a motion with his stick. The little fellow sprang from ...

sarong, and changed the quid of red betel-nut from one corner of his mouth to the other. “Here, Hamat,” I said, ...

Just a gray, jungle monkey “Lepas would sit for hours cuddled up in the mistress’s lap” He would sit for hour ...

slip away to her bureau, and such a mess as he would make of her ribbons and laces! I think he liked ...

was always so penitent after each misadventure! We had heard that Hamat had sailed for Jedda with a sh ...

official’s soup and spattered it all over his white expanse of shirt front. We all looked up at the punkah. ...

handsprings and dance with the most demure grace. I took no notice of him, and after a few vain effor ...

King Solomon’s Mines ...

Being an Account of an Ascent of Mount Ophir in Malaya, by His Excellency, the Tuan Hakim of Maur, and the Wr ...

The sun was rising directly behind the peak, a ball of liquid fire. I drew in a long draught of the war ...

of Solomon, when I look at this river. It is equal to our Hudson, and could easily carry ships twice ...

had sprung into the air from his tail up, and dropped back into his wallow with a resounding thud. In an ...

know from whence it came. He asked, and we told him from the Ophirs, which means from the gold mines. ...

relates to my home I know. King Emmanuel of Portugal wrote to his High Kadi at Rome, that his gen ...

ambition, but the Admiral would not give the command, and they dare not disobey. “Day after day went by ...

“Not one moved, and all was still. Suddenly the Admiral raised his head, and gazed out and down at his follower ...

into Malay, and the boatmen would push forward and listen with unconcealed excitement. Then, as he returned ...

It was twilight when we neared the welcome kampong. We had sent a runner ahead to notify the punghulo o ...