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Beauties of the Tropics Singapore Hospitality An Equatorial Metropolis An Aimless Existence The Growth of Singapore "Farms" and "Farmers" The Staple of Conversation The Glitter of "Barbaric Gold" A Polyglot Population A Mediocre People Female Grace and Beauty The "Asian Mystery" Oriental Picturesqueness The Metamorphosis of Singapore SINGAPORE, January 19, 1879.
By day the cooing of doves, the soft tones of the golden oriole, and the lively chatter of the red cardinal; by night the booming note of the bull-bat, the sonorous call of the trumpeter swan, and that lay far excelling all the clear song of the polyglot thrush, the famed mocking-bird of America.
The day after the fire, as he groped among the ruins in the garden, Mr. Wesley had picked up a torn leaf of his Polyglot Bible, on which these words alone were legible: Vade; vende omnia quot habes; et attolle crucem, et sequere me. He had come to Epworth a poor man: and now, after fifteen years, he stood as poor as then; poorer, perhaps.
It's very like a manuscript in the British Museum." "What manuscript?" "The Greek text of the Complutensian Polyglot." Whatever it is, it's very beautiful." "It's easier to read, too, than the ordinary kind." He was still turning over the pages, handling the book as a lover handles the thing he loves. The very touch of the vellum thrilled him with an almost sensual rapture.
Away from the noise of the puffing engines and the creaking car wheels, the ears of Sergeant Cameron and his friend were assailed by other and less cheerful sounds. "Will you listen to that now?" said the Sergeant to his polyglot companion. "What do you think of that for a civilised city?
If, at intervals, be heard the wild scream of the couguar, or the distant howling of wolves, these scarcely interrupt the music falling endlessly upon the ear the red cardinals, the orioles, the warbling fringillidae, and the polyglot thrushes who meet here, as if by agreement, to make this lovely sylvan spot the scene of their forest concerts.
An amiable young signal-officer who had been at his telephone some thirty kilometres away when the city was taken and was off at three next morning, sat opposite me and told with great spirit how the only common language between him and some of his polyglot men was the English he had learned in school and they had picked up in America.
Of course, such polyglot conversation was slow, but, eked out with a pad, a lead pencil, the face of a clock Charmian drew on the back of a pad, and with ten thousand and one gestures, we managed to get on very nicely. At the first moment we evidenced an inclination for bed the visiting natives, with soft Iaoranas, faded away, and Tehei and Bihaura likewise faded away.
Unless Nelsen wanted to kill him, there wasn't any more to do. Partial revenge. He wasn't worried about anybody except the guy's Jolly Lad henchmen. There was nobody close by. Now he did a quick fade, sure that nobody had seen who he was, during the entire episode. No use to call the cops there were too many uncertainties about the setup in wild, polyglot Pallastown.
On nearing The Bow the confusion ceased; the polyglot sounds were distinguishable only as a murmur. In passing Champ-au-Haut, he looked up at the house; here and there a light shone behind drawn shades. Six years had passed since he was last there; six years and time had not dulled the sensation of that white pepper in his nostrils! He smiled to himself.