This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... xiii the passing of penglima prang semaun N the Perak River, about fifty miles from its V_/ mouth, and just above the tidal influence, where the water is clear and shallow and the banks are lined with palm groves and orchards, there is a large Malay village called Bandar. More than twenty years ago ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... xiii the passing of penglima prang semaun N the Perak River, about fifty miles from its V_/ mouth, and just above the tidal influence, where the water is clear and shallow and the banks are lined with palm groves and orchards, there is a large Malay village called Bandar. More than twenty years ago there dwelt in this village a man named Megat Raja, married to a particularly well-favoured girl named Meriam. The fact of her marriage drew her into some sort of notoriety, and her attractions were soon the gossip of the place. The gilded youths of Bandar were fired by the description of Meriam's charms, and one of them, a boy of good family, position, and means, got sight of and fell in love with her. Oh vengeance! thou art sweet Lewis Morris The husband, Megat Raja, was conveniently called away to accompany the Sultan on a journey to Penang and Che Nuh, the youth aforesaid, profiting by that opportunity, pushed his addresses with such fervour and success that he became the lady's lover. Late one night when Che Nuh was in the house of his mistress, Megat Raja unexpectedly returned and the first the lovers knew of their danger was the demand of the husband to be admitted. The house was a large one enclosed by a palisade, and Meriam thus suddenly surprised, and fearing instant death if her husband should discover Che Nuh, implored her lover to escape by the door at the back of the house while that at the front was being opened. Che Nuh complied, but the husband had evidently heard something of what had been going on in hia absence, and, as the lover was about to descend the steps, he drew back seeing Megat Raja waiting on the ground beneath them. He drew back, but not before his presence had been perceived. Megat Raja called out "Who is that?..".
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