My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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Page 326
... Sarawak , while the numerous Dutch settlements in Celebes and the Moluccas offered great facilities for a traveller . So far as known also , the country was generally healthy , and I determined that it would be much better for me to go ...
... Sarawak , while the numerous Dutch settlements in Celebes and the Moluccas offered great facilities for a traveller . So far as known also , the country was generally healthy , and I determined that it would be much better for me to go ...
Page 341
... Sarawak . I shall go there next , as the missionary does not go to Cambodia for some months . Besides , I shall have some pleasant society at Sarawak , and shall get on in Malay , which is very easy ; but I have had no practice yet ...
... Sarawak . I shall go there next , as the missionary does not go to Cambodia for some months . Besides , I shall have some pleasant society at Sarawak , and shall get on in Malay , which is very easy ; but I have had no practice yet ...
Page 342
... Sarawak , and I have been obliged to send there to buy some . " The old men here relate with pride how many ' heads ' they took in their youth ; and though they all acknowledge the goodness of the present rajah , yet they think that if ...
... Sarawak , and I have been obliged to send there to buy some . " The old men here relate with pride how many ' heads ' they took in their youth ; and though they all acknowledge the goodness of the present rajah , yet they think that if ...
Page 343
... Sarawak , where , though the government is nominally European , it only exists with the consent and by the support of the native population . Yet I can safely say that in any part of Europe where the same opportunities for crime and ...
... Sarawak , where , though the government is nominally European , it only exists with the consent and by the support of the native population . Yet I can safely say that in any part of Europe where the same opportunities for crime and ...
Page 347
... Sarawak , where I began to feel quite at home , and may perhaps never return to it again , but I shall always look back with pleasure to my residence there and to my acquaintance with Sir James Brooke , who is a gentleman and a nobleman ...
... Sarawak , where I began to feel quite at home , and may perhaps never return to it again , but I shall always look back with pleasure to my residence there and to my acquaintance with Sir James Brooke , who is a gentleman and a nobleman ...
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