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قراءة كتاب Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines
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Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines
Tales of the Malayan Coast
From Penang to the Philippines
By
Rounsevelle Wildman
Consul General of the United States at Hong Kong
Illustrated by Henry Sandham
Boston
Lothrop Publishing Company
Copyright, 1899,
By
Lothrop Publishing Company.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
To
Our Hero
And my friend
Admiral George Dewey, U.S.N.
I Dedicate this Book
Flagship Olympia,
Manila, 21 Sept., 1898.
My Dear Wildman:—
Yours of 12th instant is at hand. I am much flattered by your request to dedicate your book to me, and would be pleased to have you do so.
With kindest regards, I am,
Very truly yours,
George Dewey.
Preface
These stories are the result of nine years’ residence and experience on the Malayan coast—that land of romance and adventure which the ancients knew as the Golden Chersonesus, and which, in modern times, has been brought again into the atmosphere of valor and performance by Rajah Brooke of Sarawak, the hero of English expansion, and Admiral George Dewey of the Asiatic squadron, the hero of American achievement. The author, in his official duties as Special Commissioner of the United States for the Straits Settlement and Siam, and, later, as Consul General of the United States at Hong Kong, has mingled with and studied the diverse people of the Malayan coast, from the Sultan of Johore and Aguinaldo