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Tales of the Malayan Coast / From Penang to the Philippines

Rounsevelle Wildman

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  • Book language: English
  • 143 pages

Tales of the Malayan Coast is a collection of stories by Rounsevelle Wildman, based on his years on the Malayan coast. The tales range from Penang to the Philippines and evoke a land of romance and adventure. Dedicated to Admiral George Dewey, they offer a glimpse of late nineteenth-century Southeast Asia.

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Tales of the Malayan Coast
Rounsevelle Wildman
Rounsevelle Wildman, U. S. Consul-General at Hong Kong.
Rounsevelle Wildman, U. S. Consul-General at Hong Kong.
Signature: Rounsevelle Wildman.
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.
George Dewey, Admiral U. S. Navy
George Dewey, Admiral U. S. Navy
Copyright, 1889, by Frances Benjamin Johnston.
Signature: George Dewey.
To
Our Hero

And my friend
Admiral George Dewey, U.S.N.
I Dedicate this Book
Handwritten dedication by General Dewey.
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

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Contents

  1. Tales of the Malayan Coast
  2. From Penang to the Philippines By Rounsevelle Wildman Consul General of the United States at Hong Kong Illustrated by He
  3. Preface
  4. Contents
  5. Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines
  6. Baboo’s Good Tiger A Tale of the Malacca Jungle
  7. Baboo’s Pirates An Adventure in the Pahang River
  8. How we Played Robinson Crusoe In the Straits of Malacca
  9. The Sarong The Malay’s Chief Garment
  10. The Kris And how the Malays use it
  11. The White Rajah of Borneo The Founding of Sarawak
  12. Amok! A Malayan Story
  13. Lepas’s Revenge The Tale of a Monkey
  14. King Solomon’s Mines Being an Account of an Ascent of Mount Ophir in Malaya, by His Excellency, the Tuan Hakim of Maur,
  15. Busuk The Story of a Malayan Girlhood
  16. A Crocodile Hunt At the foot of Mount Ophir
  17. A New Year’s Day in Malaya And some of its Picturesque Customs
  18. In the Burst of the Southwest Monsoon A Tale of Changhi Bungalow
  19. A Pig Hunt In the Malayan Jungle
  20. In the Court of Johore The Crowning of a Malayan Prince
  21. In the Golden Chersonese A Peep at the City of Singapore
  22. A Fight with Illanum Pirates The Yarn of a Yankee Skipper
  23. Colophon
  24. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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