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Updated: May 16, 2025
"When shall we come across the paddies, Achang?" asked Felix; "for I am very anxious to meet them, and maybe we shall have a Kilkenny fight with them." "No, you won't, for you speak English," replied Louis. "The paddies are here on both sides of the river," added Achang. "I don't see a man of any sort, not even a Hottentot, and I am sure there is not a Paddy in sight."
"Ask him if the Guardian-Mother is in the river, Achang," said the captain. The pilot could not make out the name, and the interpreter described the ship so that he understood him at last. The face of the Siamese lighted up when he got the idea, and it was seen by the four that the ship was there. Achang informed them that the Guardian-Mother was anchored in the river.
Then he went to the wheel, and read the entries made on the log-slate. The sea was about the same as it had been when he left the deck. He had looked at the barometer before he left the cabin. There were no signs of bad weather in any direction. "What do you think of the weather, Mr. Achang?" he asked of the officer of the deck. "It will be fine, Captain," replied the second mate.
He could tell by the appearance of the water that the enemy was approaching, though the disturbance of its surface was near the other side of the stream. The party in the water turned about, and headed for the boat, swimming with all the vigor they could command. Achang had his rifle in his hand; but even he could not make out the crocodile clearly enough to be sure of his aim.
The foremast hands declined the proffered courtesy; and Achang explained to the ladies that only the four young men who were seated were the magnates of the company, while the others were inferior personages, for the Bornean was not strictly democratic in his ideas. "We will look at the house now, if you please," said Mr.
They had no guns, and could not shoot their game, whatever it was; but each of them had a biliong. This was the implement Achang had bought in Sarawak. It looked something like a pickaxe with only one arm, the end of which was fashioned like a mortising chisel, and was used as an axe.
"There are two animals in that tree where they are at work," cried Morris, as he pointed to the scene of operations. "One of them is a big one, and the other is a little one," he added, when he obtained a better view of the game the Malays were trying to obtain. "What are they, Achang?" "Mias! Mias!" exclaimed the native, as a movement of the boat ahead gave him a full view of the creatures.
They were permitted to go on board; but when Felipe fed the fire in the furnace, and the steam began to hiss, some of them were frightened, and fled to their boats. Dinner was all ready when the party went on board; and Achang was instructed to send off the guests, for the boat was to get under way at once.
The voyage was resumed on the sea to the mouth of the Sadong; and in three hours more she entered the stream, which was a large one, averaging half a mile wide for twenty miles. "Bujang!" called Achang, as instructed by the captain. "Do you want to go any farther?" The head man replied in his own language that they wished to go to Simujan, or till they came to plenty of game.
It was not more than six feet wide, though it might as well have been a hundred so far as blocking up the river was concerned. "I don't like the idea of stopping here, for I want to see the lakes above; and I hoped we might get some fishing there," said Louis. "What the matter is?" called Achang from his workshop. He moved to one side so that he could see the obstruction.
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