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E. Alexander Powell. Where the Strange Trails Go Down
Where the Strange Trails Go Down
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT
MAP
WHERE THE STRANGE. TRAILS GO DOWN
CHAPTER I. MAGIC ISLES AND FAIRY SEAS
CHAPTER II. OUTPOSTS OF EMPIRE
CHAPTER III "WHERE THERE AIN'T NO TEN COMMANDMENTS"
CHAPTER IV. THE EMERALDS OF WILHELMINA
CHAPTER V. MAN-EATERS AND HEAD-HUNTERS
CHAPTER VI. IN BUGI LAND
CHAPTER VII. DOWN TO AN ISLAND EDEN
CHAPTER VIII. THE GARDEN THAT IS JAVA
CHAPTER IX. PUPPET RULERS AND COMIC OPERA COURTS
CHAPTER X. THROUGH THE GOLDEN CHERSONESE TO ELEPHANT LAND
CHAPTER XI. TO PNOM-PENH BY THE JUNGLE TRAIL
CHAPTER XII. EXILES OF THE OUTLANDS
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E. Alexander Powell
Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China
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The provincial treasurer, Captain Link, is a lean, lithe South Carolinian who has spent fifteen years in Moroland. He is what is known in the cattle country as a "go-gitter." It is told of him that he once nearly lost his commission, while in the constabulary, by sending to the Governor, as a Christmas present, a package which, upon being opened, was found to contain the head of a much-wanted outlaw.
"I knew he wanted that fellow's head more than anything else in the world," Captain Link said naïvely, in telling me the story, "so it struck me it would be just the thing to send him for a Christmas present. I spent a lot of time and trouble getting it too, for the fellow sure was a bad hombre. It would have gotten by all right, but the Governor's wife, thinking it was a present for herself, had to go and open the package. She went into hysterics when she saw what was inside and the Governor was so mad he nearly fired me. Some people have no sense of humor."
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