Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . more del-icacy in Malay : Thecreel says that the bas-ket is coarsely is a sardonic ideain this : For fear ofthe ghost to clasp thecorpse. There is ahomely Saxon sense inthe following : Do notsuppose, my masters, thatbecause a sugar-cane iscrooked its sweet juiceis equally crooke
Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . more del-icacy in Malay : Thecreel says that the bas-ket is coarsely is a sardonic ideain this : For fear ofthe ghost to clasp thecorpse. There is ahomely Saxon sense inthe following : Do notsuppose, my masters, thatbecause a sugar-cane iscrooked its sweet juiceis equally crooked. TheAmerican thinks it an illwind that blows no oneany good. The Malayis not so much accustomed to winds, and his thought is that When the junk is wrecked the shark has his fill. Dickenswould have rejoiced in this : The last degree of stinginessis to leave the mildew undisturbed. There is wisdom in thethought that The yam remains still and increases in bulk, ironlies quiet and wastes away the more. The Malay seems to be a good-humored, happy-go-luckycreature, whom it would not be difficult to convert into a Malays looked after the boats in the harbor and drove thehackney coaches, and their disposition seemed to be to take asmuch time as possible over their employments and sleep in the. CHINESE FRIMT GIRL. THE MALAY. 205 sun. But this should not be regarded as a severe criticism, fornobody is in a hurry in the tropics. Society has a languid,drowsy air, as though whatever really had to be done shouldbe done to-morrow. Then a race which has run into a grooveof submission, which has learned to be the burden-bearing race,which has not only passed under the rule of the Englishman,but of the Chinaman, will not abound in the higher virtues. Ihave been told that there is as much difference in the Malaycharacter as in the character of other races. Archdeacon Hose,the president of the Singapore Branch of the Royal AsiaticSociety, alludes to this in a recent address, in which
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