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Rounsevelle Wildman. Tales of the Malayan Coast
Tales of the Malayan Coast
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Tales of the Malayan Coast. From Penang to the Philippines
Baboo’s Good Tiger
A Tale of the Malacca Jungle
Baboo’s Pirates
An Adventure in the Pahang River
How we Played Robinson Crusoe
In the Straits of Malacca
The Sarong
The Malay’s Chief Garment
The Kris
And how the Malays use it
The White Rajah of Borneo
The Founding of Sarawak
Amok!
A Malayan Story
Lepas’s Revenge
The Tale of a Monkey
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 Writer
Busuk
The Story of a Malayan Girlhood
A Crocodile Hunt
At the foot of Mount Ophir
A New Year’s Day in Malaya
And some of its Picturesque Customs
In the Burst of the Southwest Monsoon
A Tale of Changhi Bungalow
A Pig Hunt
In the Malayan Jungle
In the Court of Johore
The Crowning of a Malayan Prince
In the Golden Chersonese
A Peep at the City of Singapore
A Fight with Illanum Pirates
The Yarn of a Yankee Skipper
I
The Captain’s Yarn
II
III
IV
V
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Rounsevelle Wildman
From Penang to the Philippines
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I smiled at the syce’s fears.
I knew that the days of piracy in the Straits of Malacca, save for an occasional outbreak of high-sea petty larceny on a Chinese lumber junk or a native trader’s tonkang, were past, and I did not believe that the rebels would have the hardihood to attack, day or night, a boat, however unprotected, bearing the American flag.
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