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Updated: June 4, 2025
I wrote that I believed myself to be the only European in Kwala Kangsa, but I find that there was another at the time when I wrote thus a young man of good family, who came out here seeking an appointment.
I like Kwala Kangsa better than any place that I have been at in Asia, and am proportionately sorrier to leave it. Mr. Low would have sent me up the Perak in the Dragon boat, and over the mountains into Kinta on elephants, if I could have stayed; but I cannot live longer without your letters, and they, alas! are at Colombo. Mr.
We landed at the village of Kwala Kangsa "In the glory of the sunset, In the purple mists of evening," in which the magnified purple mountains were piled like Alps against the flaming clouds. By the river bank lay the Dragon boat and the square bamboo floating bath, through the side of which Mr. Birch was mortally wounded.
Novel Circumstances The Excitements of the Jungle Eternal Summer The Sensitive Plant The Lotus Lake of Matang Elephant Ugliness A Malay Mahout A Novel Experience Domestic Pets Malay Hospitality-Land Leeches "A Fearful Joy" The End of My First Elephant Ride Kwala Kangsa BRITISH RESIDENCY, KWALA KANGSA, February 16.
There was a small bridge over the Kangsa, then a guard-room and some official residences on stilts, and at the top of a steep slope the bungalow, which has a long flight of stairs under a latticed porch, leading to a broad and comfortably furnished veranda used as the Resident's office and sitting-room, the centre part, which has a bed- room on each side of it and runs to the back of the house, serving for the eating-place.
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