Argosy All-Story Weekly, April 4, 1925 — page 11: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

ARGOSY-ALLSTORY W E EK LY | VoL. CLXVII SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1925 NUMBER 6 By ELEANOR GATES Author of “‘ The Poor Little Rich Girl,’’ etc. A NOVELETTE—COMPLETE IN THIS ISSUE CHAPTER I. THE MAN WHO UNDERSTOOD DYAKS, 2 IR, the water fights hard against us.” S It was Goboh, the steersman of Number One praw who was com- plaining—a_ thickset, well built young Malay, whose straight, heavy, black hair was covered by a brilliantly dyed head- LA cloth of cotton, this stiffened with rice Starch, and so tied that it stood out boldly in three peaks. Except for his headdress, which was scarlet, he wore only the usual white calico trousers, coming down to his bare, sandaled feet. for he had taken off his white singlet and it lay over a thwart. Goboh had spoken in his own tongue. The white man he so respectfully addressed S01 (C lDOOlK