I Like Kwala Kangsa
Better Than Any Place That I Have Been At In Asia, And Am
Proportionately Sorrier To Leave It.
Mr. Low would have sent me up the
Perak in the Dragon boat, and over the mountains into Kinta on
elephants, if I could have stayed; but I cannot live longer without
your letters, and they, alas!
Are at Colombo. Mr. Low kindly expresses
regret at my going, and says he has got quite used to my being here,
and added: "You never speak at the wrong time. When men are visiting me
they never know when to be quiet, but bother one in the middle of
business." This is most amusing, for it would be usually said: "Women
never know when to be quiet." Mr. Maxwell one day said, that when men
were with him he could "get nothing done for their clatter." I wished
to start at 4 A.M. to-morrow, to get the coolness before sunrise, but
there are so many tigers about just now in the jungle through which the
road passes, that it is not considered prudent for me to leave before
six, when they will have retired to their lairs.
I. L. B.
LETTER XXII
A Pleasant Canter - A Morning Hymn - The Pass of Bukit Berapit - The
"Wearing World" Again! - A Bad Spirit - Malay Demonology - "Running
Amuck" - An Amok-Runner's Career - The Supposed Origin of Amok - Jungle
Openings in Perak - Debt-Slavery - The Fate of Three Runaway
Slaves - Moslem Prayers - "Living Like Leeches" - Malay Proverbs - A
"Ten-Thousand-Man Umbrella"
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