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Updated: May 28, 2025
All the gamblers stayed their hands from the staking, and some seized their dagger hilts. Then I cried aloud three times, "I am Si-Hamid, the Tiger Unbound!" for by that name did men then call me "Get ye to your dwellings speedily, and leave your money where it is, or I will slay you!" 'Many were affrighted, some laughed, some hesitated, but none did as I bade them. "Dogs and pigs!"
When the Company had not yet come to Sĕlângor, when all were shy of Si-Hamid, and none dared face his kris, the "Chinese Axe." I never felt the grip of poverty in those times, for my supplies were ever at the tip of my dagger, and they were few who dared withhold aught which I desired or coveted!
Men said that henceforth Si-Hamid should be named the Fiery Rhinoceros, and not the Unbound Tiger, as they had hitherto called me. It was long ere the trick became known, and even then no man, among those who were within the gaming house that night, dared ask me for the money which I had borrowed from him and his fellows. Ya Allah, Tûan, but those days were exceeding good days!
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