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Updated: May 10, 2025
Bob Roberts was the better Malay scholar of the two, but his vocabulary only extended to asking for a durian, Good morning! How are you? and the favourite Malay proverbial saying, "Apa boleh booat" It was to be, or It couldn't be helped.
"Oh, I suppose it was because I dislike him myself. That is all. Good-bye. As we Malays say, apa boleh booat." "What is to be will be," said Archie. "Good-bye." The parade-ground remained deserted for quite an hour, and then some of the campong people had regained sufficient courage to begin dribbling back, to be followed by a few of the inhabitants of the neighbouring villages.
Well, then, take this apa boleh booat." "Apa boleh booat," said the Malay, with his face relaxing a little; and he nodded his head slowly, before turning to one of his followers and pointing to the big water-jar standing near the door, which the man immediately took up and bore out as if to fill, while his leader pointed again to a neatly woven bamboo basket in which lay three or four bananas and a half-eaten cake of bread.
Then he stood peering through the crack till the footsteps died away. "Can't see much," he said; "but I wonder what apa boleh booat means. I meant it for something nasty, but the ugly beggar took it quite pleasant. It's what those sampan chaps say when they come back without catching any fish.
This too was borne out, the contents sent flying amongst the trees close by, and the basket brought back, like the big jar, replenished. "Apa boleh booat," growled the big Malay, and he bowed his head slowly at the young soldier.
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