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Title: Tales of the Malayan Coast
From Penang to the Philippines

Author: Rounsevelle Wildman

Release Date: January 12, 2009 [EBook #27784]

Language: English

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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