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She could see its tail lashing its sides with short, whip-like movements. Then all the dogs in the kampong began to bark, and the men rushed down their ladders screaming, "Harimau! Harimau!" Once a monster python swung from a cocoanut tree through the window of her home, and wound itself round and round the post of her mother's loom.
Tigers, or harimau as the Malays call them, abound, but live in the depths of the almost inaccessible jungle, and come forth only at rare intervals, except in the case of the man-eaters, who are usually ignominiously caught in pitfalls, very seldom affording true sport.
But of a morning, as we lay lazily chatting in our long chairs behind the bamboo chicks, the cries of "Harimau! Harimau!" and "Baboo" came up to us from the servants' quarters. Aboo Din sprang over the railing of the veranda, and without stopping even to touch the back of his hand to his forehead, cried, "Tuan Consul, tiger have eat chow dog and got Baboo!" Come!"
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