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

to the thirty-five thousand Malay aborigines, and the revenue of this remnant of an empire is far greater than w ...

In the Golden Chersonese ...

A Peep at the City of Singapore Could an American boy, like a prince in the Arabian Nights, be taken ...

ring for their toes. Squatting right in the way of all passers is a Chinese travelling restaurant that looks l ...

unconscious of the eddying throng about. These chitties are fully six feet tall, with closely shaven heads an ...

affords a grateful relief to the almost blinding glare of the Malayan sky, and the metallic reflections of ...

Grouped about Raffles Square, and facing the Bund, are the great English, German, and Chinese houses that handle the ...

At the end of a long aisle of palms and banians you see a bit of wide-spreading veranda, and the full-open d ...

The color of the Indian bullock varies. Some are a dirty white, some a cream color, some almost pink, an ...

delivered to the merchant sahib on the quay his load of gambier; or he reproves them for their slownes ...

In the translucent green twilight of the flower-houses a hundred varieties of the costly orchids thrive—not cost ...

Bungalows are one story high, with a roof of palm thatch, and are raised above the ground from two to fi ...

Within three months after the purchase of the ground from the Sultan of Johore, Raffles wrote to Lord Warr ...

A Fight with Illanum Pirates ...

The Yarn of a Yankee Skipper The Daily Straits Times on the desk before me contained a vivid word pic ...

I The Captain’s Yarn The captain helped himself to one of my manilas and began:— I’ve nothing to say about the fate ...

been out on head-hunting expeditions of late, and that the mouth of the Rejang was infested by Illanum pirat ...

time as best our cramped space allowed. Twice we detected the black, ugly face of a Dyak peering fro ...

At about six bells in the afternoon, the wind fell away, and the rain came down in torrents, leaving us ...

almost like a thing of life. Within the prau were two dozen fighting men, armed with their alliga ...