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This book is for readers who love tropical adventure, colonial Singapore, jungle hunts, pirate yarns and the daily customs of Malay villages, in the spirit of Kipling or Stevenson.
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What would you do if your four-year-old son walked off with a tiger? That scene sets the tone for a collection of comedy, danger and close observation.
Rounsevelle Wildman spent nine years on the Malayan coast. He served as United States commissioner for the Straits Settlements and Siam, and later as consul general at Hong Kong. He died in 1901. Tales of the Malayan Coast gathers the stories and sketches that grew from those years. You will meet a naughty child, a White Rajah, a thieving monkey and a sailor's pirate fight.
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- 1A small boy leads a tiger astrayFree
- 2Baboo's pirates are not what they seem
- 3Playing Robinson Crusoe on a lighthouse rock
- 4The sarong and the kris explain a people
- 5A young Englishman becomes the White Rajah
- 6Amok shows what a wedding can break
- 7Lepas the monkey is trouble in a sarong
- 8Mount Ophir carries a story of gold and betrayal
- 9Village life and a monsoon night on the coast
- 10Courts, cities and a sailor's pirate yarn
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A small boy leads a tiger astray
The first tale, Baboo's Good Tiger, introduces a four-year-old who keeps vanishing from a bungalow near Singapore. He is the son of Aboo Din, the groom. Baboo is bare, brown and cheerful, and he meets every scolding by announcing that he is very bad.
One morning the cry goes up that a tiger has eaten the family dog and taken the child. Aboo Din thrusts a rifle into the consul's hands, and the men cut a path through thick jungle. On wet ground they find tiger prints. Beside them are a child's bare footprints, spaced as far apart as a man's stride. The consul laughs, because the prints prove the boy is alive.
Baboo is soon found among the mangrove roots. He found a big cat asleep, offered to show it his doll, and caught its tail when it ran. A child who fears only a whipping can walk through terror that would stop a man.
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- LengthAbout 49,100 words
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Questions about Erzählungen von der Malaiischen Küste von Penang bis zu den Philippinen
What is Tales of the Malayan Coast about?
It is a collection of tales and sketches set in Singapore, Johore, Borneo and the Malay Peninsula. It covers jungle hunts, pirates, village weddings, royal courts, a comic monkey and the legend of Mount Ophir.
Who is Baboo in this book?
Baboo is the small son of Aboo Din, the consul's groom. He appears in two tales, where his boldness and cunning carry him through a tiger encounter and a night of imagined pirates.
What is a kris and a sarong?
A kris is the snake-shaped Malay dagger, often with a wavy blade and a carved handle. A sarong is the checked tube of cloth worn as a skirt and belt. The author calls both distinctly Malay.
Are these stories true or fiction?
The pieces mix memoir, travel sketch and storytelling. Wildman draws on nine years of life on the Malayan coast, and the book presents its scenes as personal experience and local lore.
Is Tales of the Malayan Coast easy to read?
Yes, in the sense that matters. The pieces are short and separate, the voice is lively and humorous, and each one can be read on its own, so you can dip in anywhere.
Cite this edition
Wildman, Rounsevelle. Tales of the Malayan Coast from Penang to the Philippines. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/tales-of-the-malayan-coast-from-penang-to-the-philippines.
Wildman, R. (2026). Tales of the Malayan coast from Penang to the Philippines. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/tales-of-the-malayan-coast-from-penang-to-the-philippines (Original work published 1899)
Wildman, Rounsevelle. Tales of the Malayan Coast from Penang to the Philippines. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/tales-of-the-malayan-coast-from-penang-to-the-philippines.
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author = {Wildman, Rounsevelle},
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