Crossword-Solution: TUANS 5 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Small-pox is raging in the kampong (village); there is scarcely a house free from it, and it would be a sad thing if one or both of the Tuans[13] were to die here." We were much of the same opinion, and the evening of the next day but one saw us again on board the little _Sri_, bound for Kuching.

The girls must have taken kindly to the demonstration, for they unearthed “square-face” gin in plenty and with dances and what not regaled the white _Tuans_ (masters) until the east turned from violet to rose.

Evidently she is not much frightened, for she comes to the door and greets us with, “_Tabe, Tuans_,” the stock greeting of the Malay-speaking native.

From the cool semi-darkness of the office comes a voice in soft Malay telling the man to show the Tuans in, and forthwith we enter.

The Tuans are so clever that in two days they will be able to speak your language as well as you do yourself; everything is easy to a white man.’ Whereat Tama Bulan smiled broadly, and, after another searching gaze, consented to let us return with him,—provided the government would not hold him responsible for any accidents.