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

call of the orang-utan, or the wild hillmen of the country, for they have imitated the call of this mos ...

We ascended steadily up a moderate slope for several miles, keeping the ravine on our left. It was comparati ...

head, much to the amusement of my attendants. Four thousand feet below, to the east, stretched the silv ...

which Solomon’s ships sailed. For all ages the gold of the Malay Peninsula has been known; from the earl ...

Busuk ...

The Story of a Malayan Girlhood They called her Busuk, or “the youngest” at her birth. Her father, the old pu ...

From the low-barred window of Busuk’s home she could look out on the shimmering, sunlit waters of the Straits ...

At evening, when the fierce sun went down behind the great banian tree that nearly hid Mount Pulei, the ...

In a few months she could outstrip any one in the class in tracing Arabic characters on the sand-sprinkled floor ...

shelf where her silver-haired monkey could sun himself. So Busuk forgot her grief, and she watched with ill-con ...

Busuk’s long black hair had to be done up in a marvellous chignon on the top of her head. First, her maids ...

convolvulus, and pink hibiscus—and hung them about Busuk and Mamat, while the musicians outside beat th ...

the little girl mothers who were carrying water and weaving mats did not sometimes long to get down on ...

A Crocodile Hunt ...

At the foot of Mount Ophir The little pleasant-faced Malay captain of his Highness’s three-hundred ton yacht P ...

river resolved itself into the streets and quays of the little city of Bander Maharani, the capital of the p ...

We had been guests of the State for the past two weeks. Its ruler, among other kind attentions to us, had su ...

I put down my rifle in disgust, and took up my revolver. I had no idea of wasting a hundred and ten ...

seemed to be made of india-rubber and steel springs. I should not have been more surprised had the gre ...

and followed my guide out of the palace, through the courts to where the crocodile had been the night before, ...