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Tales of the Malayan Coast / From Penang to the Philippines — Rounsevelle Wildman

Tales of the Malayan Coast / From Penang to the Philippines

Rounsevelle Wildman

  • Stories
  • 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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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

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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