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In Court and Kampong (Dodo Press)
Sir Hugh Charles Clifford GCMG GBE (1866-1941) was a British colonial administrator. Clifford intended to follow his father, a distinguished colonial general, into the British Army, but later decided to join the civil service in the Straits Settlements. He was later transferred to the British Protectorate of the Federated Malay States. Clifford arrived in Malaya in 1883, at the age of 17. He first became a cadet in the State of Perak. During his twenty years in Perak, Clifford socialised with the local Malays and studied their language and culture deeply. He served as British Resident at Pahang, 1896-1900 and 1901-1903, and Governor of North Borneo, 1900-1901. Later he was appointed Governor of the Gold Coast, 1912-1919, Nigeria, 1919-1925, and Ceylon, 1925-1927. He continued to write stories and novels about Malayan life. His last posting was as Governor of the Straits Settlements and British High Commissioner in Malaya from 1927 until 1930. His works include: A Dictionary of the Malay Language (1894), In Court and Kampong (1897) and Studies in Brown Humanity (1898).
In Court and Kampong
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The House of Clifford
"Cliffords throughout the world will welcome the appearance of this authoritative volume, whose compilation, as the author makes clear in his introduction, has involved many distinguished contributors as well as himself. The book begins by tracing the medieval barons of Clifford from before the Conquest, and the generations who became masters first of the barony of Clifford and then of extensive estates in Westmorland and elsewhere. The Clifford lords played a central role in national and local history, a tradition which was continued into the Tudor and Stuart periods. The story of Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery, was a particularly fascinating episode. The history of the author's own line, the Cliffords of Chudleigh, is also traced in detail: the account of the secret negotations between Charles II and King Louis XIV will perhaps be of particular interest"--Front flyleaf. Some descendants and relatives immigrated to Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and else- where. Includes some ancestry in pre-Conquest Normandy and elsewhere in Europe.
The Gold Coast Regiment in the East African Campaign
The Voyage to and Arrival in East Africa The Advance on the Dar-es-Salaam—Lake Tanganyika Railway The Passage into the Uluguru Mountains—The Battles at Kikirunga Hill and at Nkessa In the Kilwa Area—Gold Coast Hill In the Kilwa Area—In the Southern Valley of the Lower Rufiji In the Kilwa Area—Mnasi and Rumbo In the Kilwa Area—Narungombe The Halt at Narungombe The Advances to Mbombomya and Beka Nahungu and Mitoneno Ruangwa Chini to Mnero Mission Station Lukuledi Expulsion of Von Lettow-Vorbeck from German East Africa Transfer of the Gold Coast Regiment to Portuguese East Africa The Advance from Port Amelia to Meza The Engagement at Medo The Advance from Medo to Koronje and Msalu The Expulsion of Von Lettow-Vorbeck from the Nyassa Company's Territory and the Return of the Gold Coast Regiment to West Africa The Mounted Infantry of the Gold Coast Regiment Honours and Decorations earned in East Africa Strength of the Regiment and Expeditionary Force at Various Periods, and Drafts dispatched to it from the Gold Coast Letters of Appreciation from the General Officer Commanding Pamforce, and from the Gold Coast Government. Resolution passed by the Legislative Council
The Were-Tiger
The earliest European account of the existence of the were-tiger comes from the Malacca Portuguese records. British Victorian era explorers to Malaya not only recorded stories about the were-tiger but told of several were-tiger villages hidden deep in the jungles of Malaya. These mythical shapeshifters struck fear in rural Malay society as they were able to kill their unsuspecting victims, usually out of vengeance. The Were-Tiger was written by the renowned Malayan colonial Sir Hugh Clifford and it was originally published in 1916. It is a short story of a village’s experience with a migrant Sumatran trader and a supernatural big cat that occurred in Slim, Pahang. Sir Hugh Clifford served as the British Resident at Pahang and later as British High Commissioner in Malaya.
Modern Subjects/colonial Texts
Holden reveals how the experience as a colonial administrator made Clifford suspicious of the economic expediency which often underlies the rhetoric of mission and duty."--BOOK JACKET.
