My Journal in Malayan Waters, Or, The Blockade of QuedahRoutledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1861 - 360 Seiten |
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... boats . I forgot that although Quedah was well known to me and my shipmates , that it was a terra incognita to the majority of men . Readers therefore in search of a book , were perfectly puzzled by the mere term , Quedah . might be a ...
... boats . I forgot that although Quedah was well known to me and my shipmates , that it was a terra incognita to the majority of men . Readers therefore in search of a book , were perfectly puzzled by the mere term , Quedah . might be a ...
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... boats off Quedah . - My Gun - boat and Crew . The Coxswain's Excitability .-- The Interpreter's Appearance - 15 CHAPTER III . Commence to blockade Quedah Fort - Jadee's imaginary Fight with a Tonkoo . - My Malay Coxswain's Appearance ...
... boats off Quedah . - My Gun - boat and Crew . The Coxswain's Excitability .-- The Interpreter's Appearance - 15 CHAPTER III . Commence to blockade Quedah Fort - Jadee's imaginary Fight with a Tonkoo . - My Malay Coxswain's Appearance ...
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... boat " The Emerald " joins the Parlis Blockading Squadron . - The Malays try to stockade us out of the River . - Haggi Loũng comes on an Embassy.- Malayan Diplomacy . - Jadee's Disregard for a Flag of Truce . - Jadee and the one - eyed ...
... boat " The Emerald " joins the Parlis Blockading Squadron . - The Malays try to stockade us out of the River . - Haggi Loũng comes on an Embassy.- Malayan Diplomacy . - Jadee's Disregard for a Flag of Truce . - Jadee and the one - eyed ...
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... Boats - - - 137 CHAPTER XII . Return to Quedah . - Native Defences . - The " Teda bagoose . " -Scaring an Ally . - Difficulties which accounted for the Delay of the Siamese . — Inchi Laa acknowledges the Effects of our Blockade ...
... Boats - - - 137 CHAPTER XII . Return to Quedah . - Native Defences . - The " Teda bagoose . " -Scaring an Ally . - Difficulties which accounted for the Delay of the Siamese . — Inchi Laa acknowledges the Effects of our Blockade ...
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... Boat . - Praise- worthy Fidelity of the Malays.- Malay Independence of Character . The Pleasures of Memory . - A Malay Family Scene . Return to Parlis . - Pulo Quetam . - Trade during Blockade - 270 CHAPTER XXI . Social Evenings ...
... Boat . - Praise- worthy Fidelity of the Malays.- Malay Independence of Character . The Pleasures of Memory . - A Malay Family Scene . Return to Parlis . - Pulo Quetam . - Trade during Blockade - 270 CHAPTER XXI . Social Evenings ...
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afterwards alligators amongst anchor appeared armed assured Bagoose Baju-Mira Barclay birds'-nests blockade boats Bountings brig called canoe Captain Warren capture chase chieftainess Chinese close cloth cocoa-nut coxswain creatures creese crew cutter Datoo Mahomet Alee deck Emerald English escape evidently fancy fcap fight fire forest fugitives gave gun-boat guns Haggi hands head Hyacinth Inchi Laa islands Jadee Jadee's Jamboo jungle junk Kangah knew Lancavas looked Mahomet Alee Malacca Malayan Malayia Malays midshipman miles monkeys musquitoes native nests nicodar night oars paddles Parlis Pat Conroy Penang pinnace pirates poor prahus province Pulo Quedah Quetam Rajah returned rice river round sailors sails sampan scene seamen seen serang Setouè ship shoot shouted Siamese Siamese army Singapore slave snake soon stockade Straits of Malacca strong Sumatra Tamelan tide told Tom West Tonkoo Mahomet Touhan town trees Type-etam Untoo vessel whilst wild wind
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Seite 295 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody sun, at noon, Eight up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion ; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
Seite 279 - WHEN the breeze of a joyful dawn blew free In the silken sail of infancy, The tide of time flow'd back with me, The forward-flowing tide of time ; And many a sheeny summer-morn, Adown the Tigris I was borne, By Bagdat's shrines of fretted gold, High-walled gardens green and old ; True Mussulman was I and sworn, For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid.
Seite 51 - ... October, 1815. It will be remembered that her husband embarked for India the year before. Thus a critic of the time spake with more wisdom than he was aware of, when he wrote the following sentence as to her Rosalind. "Of her figure it would be unjust at present to speak. She appears to be far advanced in that state in which ladies wish to be who love their lords.
Seite i - SWEET MEMORY, wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail, To view the fairy-haunts of long-lost hours, Blest with far greener shades, far fresher flowers.
Seite 322 - From life's thronged path, unnoticed to expire. As the light leaf, whose fall to ruin bears Some trembling insect's little world of cares, Descends in silence — while around waves on The mighty forest, reckless what is gone...
Seite 259 - ... seen climbing the mangrove branches, and dashing: from thence into the water with all the life and energy of children of a colder clime, at once affording us proof that even they have their joys.