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WHERE THE STRANGE TRAILS GO DOWN

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WHERE
THE STRANGE TRAILS
GO DOWN

SULU, BORNEO, CELEBES, BALI, JAVA,SUMATRA, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS,MALAY STATES, SIAM, CAMBODIA,ANNAM, COCHIN-CHINA

 

BY
E. ALEXANDER POWELL

 

 

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAP

 

 

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1921

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COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

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Published October, 1921

 

 

PRINTED AT
THE SCRIBNER PRESS
NEW YORK, U. S. A.

 

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To

THE WINSOME WIDOW
MARGARET CAMPBELL McCUTCHEN
WHO, DESPITE COUNTLESS DISCOMFORTS,
ALWAYS KEPT SMILING

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FOREWORD

It is a curious thing, when you stop to think about it, that, though oflate the public has been deluged with books on the South Seas, thoughthe shelves of the public libraries sag beneath the volumes devoted toChina, Japan, Korea, next to nothing has been written, save by ahandful of scientifically-minded explorers, about those far-flung,gorgeous lands, stretching from the southern marches of China to theedges of Polynesia, which the ethnologists call Malaysia. Siam,Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China, the Malay States, the StraitsSettlements, Sumatra, Java, Bali, Celebes, Borneo, Sulu ... their verynames are synonymous with romance; the sound of them makes restless thefeet of all who love adventure. Sultans and rajahs ... pirates andhead-hunters ... sun-bronzed pioneers and white-helmeted legionnaires... blow-guns with poisoned darts and curly-bladed krises ... elephantswith gilded howdahs ... tigers, crocodiles, orang-utans ... pagodas andpalaces ... shaven-headed priests in yellow robes ... flamingfire-trees ... the fragrance of frangipani ... green jungle andsteaming tropic rivers ... white moonlight on the long white beaches... the throb of war-drums and the tinkle of wind-blowntemple-bells....

But it is not for all of us to go down the strange [viii]trails which leadto these magic places. The world's work must be done. So, for tho

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