In Court And Kampong

The nineteen tales and sketches, which are enclosed within the covers ofthis Book, relate to certain brown men and obscure things in a distantand very little known corner of the Earth. The Malay Peninsula--thatslender tongue of land which projects into the tepid seas at the extremesouth of the Asiatic Continent--is but little more than a name to mostdwellers in Europe. But, even in the Peninsula itself, and to themajority of those white men whose whole lives have been passed in theStraits of Mal