British Residency,
Pahang, Malay Peninsula,
November 7, 1896.

CONTENTS

As I came through the Desert thus it was,
As I came through the Desert.

The City of Dreadful Night.

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1.The East Coast[1]
2.The People of the East Coast[17]
3.The Experiences of Râja Haji Hamid[30]
4.The Battle of The Women[37]
5.In Cock-Pit and Bull-Ring[46]
6.The Were-Tiger[62]
7.The Âmok Of Dâto Kâya Bîji Dĕrja[78]
8.The Flight of Chêp the Bird[96]
9.The Vaulting Ambition[111]
10.'One more Unfortunate'[125]
11.Among the Fisher-folk[134]
12.The Story of Bâyan the Paroquet[151]
13.The Tale of a Theft[161]
14.In a Camp Of the Sĕmangs[171]
15.His Heart's Desire[182]
16.A Night of Terror[196]
17.In the Days when the Land was Free[210]
18.Un Mauvais Quart d'Heure[230]
19.Up Country[245]
L'Envoi

THE EAST COAST

The charmed sunset linger'd low adown
In the red West: thro' mountain clefts the dale
Was seen far inland, and the yellow down
Border'd with palm, and many a winding vale
And meadow, set with slender galingale;
A land where all things always seem'd the same!
And round about the keel with faces pale,
Dark faces pale against that rosy flame,
The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters came.