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A PERSONAL INCIDENT
and successfully carried out. As we saw nothing
of them I conclude they did not exert themselves to
overtake us.
During the subsequent military operations in
after some
Perak, Haji Ali fell into our hands, and,
weeks spent on a British man-of-war, he became
a reformed character. I see him
quite occasionally
now, but he seems depressed, and when I find him
looking at me there is no anger in his face, only a
sorrow as of a man who is misunderstood
great by
the world and who suffers without resentment.
I don't know why, but this expression is a source
of unfeigned amusement to the Malays who happen
to see it. It is very unfeeling of them.

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