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Malacca and its contrasts--Devourers of the soul and devourers of the body--The realization of a poet's dream--Temptations--A call from the forest--Auri sacra fames--Baggage--Farewell to civilization.

From the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Siam the Malay Peninsula, once known as the Golden Chersonese, jets out into the Indian Ocean like an arm stretched forth to unite once more within its embrace the innumerable isles that belt its coasts and that have probably been severed from the mainland by the combined force of Time and Sea. ... Read more