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Updated: May 9, 2025
He smiled contentedly, for his mind was made up. He would not ask to be made master of the Sultan's marvellous yacht, that was sent out from Liverpool, although the possibility made him catch his breath: he would ask nothing for himself, he would ask that his Excellency let his son Noa go to Mecca, that he might become a hadji and then some day who knows Noa might become a kateeb in the attap-thatched mosque back of the palace.
Baboo opened his little black eyes, but did not dispute me. "You shall go to Mecca when you grow up, and become a Hadji, and when you come back the high kadi shall take you in the mosque and make a kateeb of you," said I. "Now put your forehead to the ground and thank the good Allah that the kuching had eaten dog before he got you."
At evening, when the fierce sun went down behind the great banian tree that nearly hid Mount Pulei, the kateeb would sound the call to prayer on a hollow log that hung up before the little palm-thatched mosque. Then Busuk and her playmates would fall on their faces, while the holy man sang in a soft, monotonous voice the promises of the Koran, the men of the kampong answering.
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