The sun., 1916-10-28
A COROLLARY.T TO CONRAD

There has always been a strange af-
hnity between the work OF Joseph con
rad and Sir Hugh Clifford personal
friends In private life, intense admircre
OF each other and both portrayers OF
the Malayan country. yet different In
every literary sense. While Conrad
weaves a tremendous and symbolical tale
Of the tropics, Sir Hugh clifford gives US
the Jungle In all its intensive reality. full
Of a myriad Of shifting lights, n world
In which one lays hands upon the oldest
wisdom. the deepest superstition and the
b'ackest magic that life has bred.
Like Conrad Cup 10 the time he left
the sea-. writing has been with sir Hugh
clifford an avocation rather than n vo-
cation. for although he has had a tre-
mendous literary output, including q few
such frivolous works as n Malayan
translation OF the penal code and a die
tionary OF the Maiayan language, he has
devoted the greater part OF his rfe TO
the 'nanity OF affairs which assail a
British servant In the Colonial service.
As n young man. or rather n hoy less
than Is years old. Hugh CLIFFORD Joined
the Malay civil service as 4 cadet. Ar
irving in the Malay Peninsula. he was
put TO work ina country quite prirn tive
and very tropical to learn the duties
which the men who represent the Eng
/ i4Sn government III ali - "a NH' w.
God forsakcn places on his earth are
expected to perform. Before he was IS.
because Of The death OF an English COM
missioner. he was sent up country"
INTO the Interior Of the Malay country to
administer a large district - possessing
the usual powers and enormous rcspon-
sibllitlcs which these positions imply.
lie was given the task Of administering
/, large and wild part Of the country and
"a .. ,.A..,ia slV.. F.ls h,fnfA hl AZ.
tanned his legal manhood. and for over a
year never saw a white face md for six
years did not see his native land.
To make a long and romantic story
short and prosaic. Sir Hugh clifford
,ku'ghtod in 1909 served thirty years
In Malay. Trinidad, Tobago. CcyIon. and
t. now Governor OF the Gold Coast. West
Africa. a tropical but Interesting colony
which Is supposed To be the home Of the
s'ceping sickness and the mother country
Of ali the other tropical feyers.
just In order To make the record COM
plete he was born In London in 1866 ard
was educated for the naval service. lie
lo.ned the cIvIl service instead. rs indl-
Gated above. and las had entrusted 10
him some Of the most difficult and most
delicate posts within the activity ~ the
British Colonial Office. Since 1912 he
has been Governor and COMMANDMENTS
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Coast. Although he has written a great
many important works, the only other
book besides his new one, Tile Further
Side ot silence" just issued by Double
day. Page & Co. known In this country.
Is "Nalsyan Monochromes," another vol
ume OF remarkable short stories OF the
Nalayan Peninsula,
II is In the preface TO The Further
Side OF silence where Sir Hugh clifford
with shnYaCtnrlefi mnIpSfN tells tho
sorry o, how he was instrumental in
adding $1,000 square miles to the British
Empire.
Nobody. am sure. ever reads a
| preface" begins this somewhat remark
able document. II consider, therefore.
that ! may safely regard this foreword
as n confidential document. written for
the sole purpose Of saving my own
sensitive conscience. From this point OF
view ! regard 1t as necessary. for II
seems to me tina: the impos,ure involved
In issuing as a work Of fiction a volume
which is In the main a record OF fact
should be frankly confessed from the
outset. A knowledge OF the truth that
'hesc initial pages will temaln to some
extent n secret between me. the proof
reader and the printer will enable ne.
however. to write o! personal things with
a larger measure of freedom than !
should otherwise he bold enough to use
THE stories composing this book. with
a single eXception-'The Ghoul,' which
reached me at second hand-arc all re-
| latlOns ~ incidents In which | have had
a part or in which the %princippl a"'ors
hav. been familiarity known to me. They
faithfully reproduce conditions IT life as
they existed In the Malayan Peninsula
before the white men took "A hand In the
government Of the native States. or I'm
Hediately after our comlng-things rs
| knew them between 1883 and 1909
| the twenty years that I passed In that
most beautiful and at one time little
frequentcd corner OF Asia They are
written with a full appreciation v the
nat VI point OF view, and Of n peorln Cor
whom | entertain much affection aAi
sympathy. Incidentally. however, they
viii perhaps hc'r to explain why British
| civil servants in the East occasionally
'ay thcmselt es open 10 the charE" ~
being animated by a hungry acIulsi.
tiveness' and n pas sion for anncXing ter
r!tory OF their native ~nelghbors.
Fate II n rather courageous Co
lonial Governor Ordained that ! SHOULD
~ sent on a special mission to the SUI.
tan OF Pahanr--a Malayan state on the
eastern seaboard OF the peninsula-he-
fore | was quite one and twenty years OF
age. This course was not NJ the tim
| as reckless and dpaperntp as n Souuds