In Court and Kampong / Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula

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PREFACE

CONTENTS

THE EAST COAST

THE PEOPLE OF THE EAST COAST

THE EXPERIENCES OF RaJA HAJI HAMID

THE BATTLE OF THE WOMEN

IN COCK-PIT AND BULL-RING

THE WERE-TIGER

THE AMOK OF DaTO KaYA BiJI D?RJA

THE FLIGHT OF CHeP, THE BIRD

THE VAULTING AMBITION

'ONE MORE UNFORTUNATE'

AMONG THE FISHER FOLK

THE STORY OF BaYAN THE PAROQUET

A TALE OF A THEFT

IN A CAMP OF THE S?MANGS

'HIS HEART'S DESIRE'

A NIGHT OF TERROR

IN THE DAYS WHEN THE LAND WAS FREE

UN MAUVAIS QUART D'HEURE

UP COUNTRY

L'ENVOI

BEING
TALES & SKETCHES OF NATIVE LIFE
IN THE MALAY PENINSULA

BY
HUGH CLIFFORD

LONDON
GRANT RICHARDS
48 LEICESTER SQUARE


First printed April 1897
Reprinted September 1903


To My Wife

My knowledge of all these things was won
Ere to gladden my life You came,
But the Land I knew, the Deeds saw done
Will be never again the same,
For You have come, like the rising Sun,
To golden my World with your flame.

H. C.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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