Frank Swettenham, a British officer who spent his career among the Malay states, sets down what he saw of the peninsula’s people. His sketches describe the character of the Malay, tiger hunts, a fishing picnic, the murder of a hawker, the sport of sliding down waterfall rocks and the terrifying frenzy known as amok, with tales of local chiefs and adventurers.
A vivid record of nineteenth-century Malaya, written from a colonial officer’s point of view. Download the free EPUB.