CIRCUS DAYS 29 
and who has no consideration for them may start 
trouble that will end in an uprising. The trouble 
generally comes from a lack of regard for the 
native’s feeling for his women. Though the Malays 
live a fairly loose life, they resent having a white 
man take their women and they generally vent 
their displeasure in murder. That, of course, means 
a government investigation, with ill-feeling rising 
on both sides. To the Dutch Resident I explained 
my purpose in wishing to live in the Malay quarter 
with the hadji, and he gave me permission, warning 
me that it would be revoked at the least sign of 
trouble. 
Thereupon, with the hadji leading, I took my be- 
longings to his house and settled down to become 
acquainted with the people. They regarded me cu- 
riously, but when the hadji introduced me by saying 
“FE -tu-twan banyar bye. Dare be-tolé (This man 
is very good. He is true),” they accepted me with- 
out question. The word of a man who has made 
a pilgrimage to Mecca is not to be doubted and my 
dispute with Mahommed Ariff was told and retold 
until it became a wonderfully exaggerated legend 
with me as the hero. They disliked Ariff because 
he was forever swindling them when they capttired 
animals. 
It is not difficult to win the friendship of the 
natives, if you know how to treat them. If they 
like you, they become doglike in their devotion ; they 
will do anything you tell them to do and believe 
