In Court and Kampong

Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula. First published in 1897 and reprinted from the edition of 1903. Sir Hugh Charles Clifford (1866-1941) was a British colonial administrator who first arrived in Malaya in 1883 aged 17. During his 20 years there and on the East Coast of the Malay Peninsula he socialised with local Malays in whom he took a deep interest, studying their language and culture.