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Title: Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak

Author: Harriette McDougall

Release Date: December 19, 2008 [EBook #27568]

Language: English

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[Cover]

[Illustration: HAPPILY HE HAD A STOUT WALKING-STICK, AND AT ONCE FELLED
THE REPTILE.

_Frontispiece._ _Page_ 26.]

SKETCHES
OF
OUR LIFE AT SARAWAK

BY
HARRIETTE McDOUGALL.

_WITH MAP._

PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE TRACT COMMITTEE.

LONDON:
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE,
NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, CHARING CROSS, W.C.;
43, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, E.C.;
26, ST. GEORGE'S PLACE, HYDE PARK CORNER, S.W.
BRIGHTON: 135, NORTH STREET.
NEW YORK: E. & J. B. YOUNG AND CO.

CONTENTS.

PART I.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. INTRODUCTORY 7

II. THE COURT-HOUSE 13

III. COLLEGE HILL 21

IV. PIRATES 32

V. THE CHURCH AND THE SCHOOL 45

VI. THE GIRLS 58

VII. THE LUNDUS 68

VIII. A BOAT JOURNEY 82

IX. CONTINUATION OF THE TRIP TO REJANG 92

PART II.

X. RETURN TO SARAWAK 105

XI. CHINESE INSURRECTION 120

XII. CHINESE INSURRECTION (_Continued_) 139

XIII. EVENTS OF 1857 157

XIV. THE MALAY PLOT 174

PART III.

XV. THE CHILDREN'S CHAPTER 189

XVI. ILLANUN PIRATES 204

XVII. A MALAY WEDDING 215

XVIII. LAST YEARS AT SARAWAK 228

XIX. THE ISLAND OF BORNEO 239

PART I.

[Map: BORNEO]

SKETCHES OF OUR LIFE AT SARAWAK.