Where the Strange Trails Go DownC. Scribner's son's, 1921 - 279 halaman |
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adventure American Annam Bali Balinese bamboo Bangkok Batavia British North Borneo Buddha Bugis Cambodia camera capital Celebes China Chinese coast Cochin-China colonial colored Controleur coolies court crocodile curious custom dances Djokjakarta Dutch Dutch officials dwell Dyak East Eastern elephant European feet French gardens girl gorgeous Governor Governor-General harbor Hawkinson head head-hunting Holland hundred Indies Indo-China Insulinde interior island Java Javanese Johore Jolo jungle juramentado King Kloeng known Koetei kraton laborers land look Makassar Malay Malaysia Menjepee ment miles Moengal Moro motion-picture native Negros opium palace palms Pasuruan Philippines Pnom-Penh princes railway Resident river road royal royal ballet ruler Saigon Samarinda Sandakan savage scarlet Siam Siamese Singapore Straits Sultan Sulu Sulu Sea sumpitan Surabaya Susuhunan tains temples Tenggaroeng Tenggerese thing thousand throne tiger tion told trails trees tribes tropic walls women yellow
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Halaman 241 - Good old rule, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.
Halaman 112 - I could make out a large table piled high with trays of precious stones, ingots of gold and silver, vessels, utensils, and images of the same precious metals. It was the state treasure of Koetei and was worth, so the resident told me, upward of a million dollars. When we were in Koetei the young Sultan, an anaemiclooking youth in the early twenties, had not yet been permitted by the Dutch authorities to ascend the throne, the country being ruled by his uncle, the regent, an elderly, affable gentleman...
Halaman 218 - ... and slender spire said to be covered with plates of gold. It certainly looks like a solid mass of that precious metal, and at daybreak and nightfall, when it catches the level rays of the sun, it can be seen from afar, shining and glittering above the gorgeously colored roofs of the temples and the many-tinted lesser spires which surround it. Close by the gilded prachadee is the...
Halaman 43 - ... the ship's officers. As the Negros carried no armament, we were in something of a quandary as to how we should fire a royal salute, but this was solved by my photographer, Hawkinson, and the surgeon, who volunteered to fire the appropriate number of "guns" with their automatic pistols as his Highness came over the side. That, in their enthusiasm, they lost count and gave him about double the number of guns...
Halaman 120 - ... as the Kapuas of Central Borneo, who hollow out the trunk of a growing tree and in the space thus prepared insert the corpse of the departed. The bark is carefully replaced over the opening and the tree continues to grow and flourish — literally a living tomb.
Halaman 71 - At the head of the long table, banked with flowers and gleaming with glass and silver, sits the chairman of the chartered company, flanked by cabinet ministers, archbishops, ambassadors, admirals, field marshals. The speakers work the audience into a fervor of patriotic pride by their sonorous word-pictures of England's services to humanity in bearing the white man's burden, and of the spread of enlightenment and progress under the Union Jack. But the heartiest applause invariably greets the announcement...
Halaman 228 - ... and clothes are nevertheless burned by the family. As food, weapons, etc., are sometimes buried with the body, so they are sometimes burned with the body, the whole ashes being collected. The Siamese have a singular institution, according to which, before burning, the embalmed body lies in a temple for a period determined by the rank of the dead man — the king for six months, and so downwards. If the poor relations cannot afford fuel and other necessary preparations, they bury the body, but...
Halaman 274 - Glorious, glorious, one keg of beer for the four of us. / Glory be to god there are no more of us, / For one of us could kill it all alone.
Halaman 19 - ... with a sword. In Moroland, however, the bulls, which are bred and trained for the purpose, do their best to kill each other, thus making the fight a much more sporting proposition. The bull-fight which was...
Halaman 190 - Asiatic rulers, the kraton of the Sultan of Djokjakarta is really a royal city in the heart of his capital. It consists of a vast congeries of palaces, barracks, stables, pagodas, temples, offices, courtyards, corridors, alleys and bazaars, containing upward of fifteen thousand inhabitants, the whole encircled by a high wall four miles in length. Everything that the sovereign can require, every necessity and luxury of life, every adjunct of pleasure, is assembled within the kraton.