mangrove-hidden

Updated: May 4, 2025

Civilization has introduced many articles of clothing; but no matter how many of these are adopted, the Malay, from his Highness the Sultan of Johore, to the poorest fisherman of a squalid kampong on the muddy banks of a mangrove-hidden stream, religiously wears the sarong.

Rounsevelle Wildman - Tales of the Malayan Coast: From Penang to the Philippines