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Updated: May 19, 2025
The goods appropriated in Korea were sometimes carried to China for sale, the pirates assuming, now the character of peaceful traders, now that of ruthless plunderers. The apparition of these Pahan ships seems to have inspired the Chinese with consternation. They do not appear to have made any effective resistance.
It must have been a couple of hours later, during which the occupants of the boat had been watching the rising and falling of the fire as they swung slowly to and fro at the end of the rope, when Minnie, who had been speaking in a whisper to the boatman and his wife, turned to her companions and said: "Pahan thinks that we may risk floating down the river now.
I can't bear it now." "Of course you can't. Forgive me for being such a fool. I say, your what's his name Pahan he's getting quite a stack of green stuff aboard, and Hang it all! Look at the moon!" "Yes; I am looking," sighed Minnie. "I've watched it many a time since I have been in hiding, and I never thought to look upon it peacefully again. Oh Archie! go on talking to me.
For they kept gaining upon us, till they got near enough to begin throwing spears, two of which passed through the attaps; and I crouched down, praying that the darkness that was so near would come down and hide me so that Pahan could run the boat in somewhere amongst the bushes.
"No; it was all too dark and confused. But I did think you were a native woman." "That is good," said Minnie. "Dula brought me down to the creek where the boat was lying, and Pahan meant to pretend after dark, if we met any of the Malays, that he was taking in fruit for the Rajah's men. But we were seen too soon. One of the Rajah's boats came in sight, and the chief with it called to us to stop.
"It keeps me from thinking. What were you going to say?" "I was going to ask you how you knew that we were in hiding here." "Knew! Oh no! It was like this. Dula and Pahan were bringing me down in their boat, believing that they could reach the bungalow in the darkness and hide me there. Of course you did not see in the dusk that I am wearing Dula's baju and sarong."
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