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

more difficult. At last I struck the mangrove belt, which always warns you that you are approaching the coa ...

A crocodile hunt on the maur “I turned at bay with my long hunting knife in my hand” Whatever the issue ...

My chances, if it did not seem a mockery to call them such, were small indeed. I might, by singular ...

A New Year’s Day in Malaya ...

And some of its Picturesque Customs My Malay syce came close up to the veranda and touched his brown forehea ...

Through the spaces of the protecting chicks I caught glimpses of my Malay kebun, or gardener, squatting on hi ...

variety and picturesqueness. At ten o’clock the favored representatives of the Anglo-Saxon race took their place on t ...

was looking the other way, would snap a good-sized piece across to him. The little brown fellow who won the ...

That night we danced at Government House,—we exiles of the Temperate Zone, —keeping up to the last the fi ...

In the Burst of the Southwest Monsoon ...

A Tale of Changhi Bungalow We had been out all day from Singapore on a wild-pig hunt. There were ei ...

The bamboo chicks were all down, and the shutter-doors securely locked from the inside, but there was a long ...

him—from his ragged, matted hair to the fringe on the bottom of his trousers. He held a broken cork helme ...

to the other, as I went on with my task. He coughed once or twice to attract my attention. “Beg pardon ...

My companion dropped down among the decayed stumps of pineapples and cocoanut refuse, and commenced to croon ...

high official of H. B. M. service had left behind. There were traces of starvation or dissipation in every ...

I did not look up, but I was perfectly familiar with the expression of injured innocence that was mantling ...

or ’68, I forget which.” “Try ’67,” I suggested. “It was not ’67,” he exclaimed angrily, “it was either ’ ...

But, sir, you would have done likewise. Live under the burning sun of India for four years, struggle ...

The corporal stood with his back to the door, and gave himself mental words of command,—“Eyes left, eyes ...