The Project Gutenberg eBook of Tales of the Malayan Coast
Title: Tales of the Malayan Coast
Author: Rounsevelle Wildman
Release date: January 12, 2009 [eBook #27784]
Language: English
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Tales of the Malayan Coast
From Penang to the Philippines
By
Rounsevelle Wildman
Consul General of the United States at Hong Kong
Illustrated by Henry Sandham
Boston
Lothrop Publishing Company
Copyright, 1899,
By
Lothrop Publishing Company.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
To
Our Hero
And my friend
Admiral George Dewey, U.S.N.
I Dedicate this Book
Flagship Olympia,
Manila, 21 Sept., 1898.
My Dear Wildman:—
Yours of 12th instant is at hand. I am much flattered by your request to dedicate your book to me, and would be pleased to have you do so.
With kindest regards, I am,
Very truly yours,
George Dewey.
Preface
These stories are the result of nine years’ residence and experience on the Malayan coast—that land of romance and adventure which the ancients knew as the Golden Chersonesus, and which, in modern times, has been brought again into the atmosphere of valor and performance by Rajah Brooke of Sarawak, the hero of English expansion, and Admiral George Dewey of the Asiatic squadron, the hero of American achievement. The author, in his official duties as Special Commissioner of the United States for the Straits Settlement and Siam, and, later, as Consul General of the United States at Hong Kong, has mingled with and studied the diverse people of the Malayan coast, from the Sultan of Johore and Aguinaldo the Filipino to the lowest Eurasian and “China boy” of that wonderful Oriental land. These stories are based on his experiences afloat and ashore, and are offered to the American public at this time when all glimpses of the land that Columbus sailed to find are of especial interest to the modern possessors of the land he really did discover.
Contents
- Page
- Baboo’s Good Tiger 9
- Baboo’s Pirates 28
- How we Played Robinson Crusoe 47
- The Sarong 66
- The Kris 74
- The White Rajah of Borneo 81
- Amok! 101
- Lepas’s Revenge 130
- King Solomon’s Mines 147
- Busuk 181
- A Crocodile Hunt 200
- A New Year’s Day in Malaya 219
- In the Burst of the Southwest Monsoon 230
- A Pig Hunt on Mount Ophir 254
- In the Court of Johore 270
- In the Golden Chersonese 293
- A Fight with Illanum Pirates 321