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...hours ticked by, there came no sign of the plane, no message from its radio, the Royal Air Force started one of the greatest searches in aviation history. Up from Penang roared 37 planes to scour Sir Charles's route. Through the steaming jungle all along the Malay coast natives ran forth with flares flickering in the dark. But as the days passed it became more & more likely that Sir Charles, who had safely pioneered almost every dangerous airway in the world, had finally tempted fate too far. Hope persisted that he might have landed on some tiny, uninhabited...
...tycoon but a greasy, coastwise racketeer, aware that the Kin Lung carries a fat cargo of gold. McCaleb, the drunken novelist (Robert Benchley), insults his fellow passengers by misunderstanding them completely. High point of the story arrives when, having weathered a typhoon, the Kin Lung is attacked by Malay pirates who are in league with Racketeer MacArdle...
...lure of the Orient. During the typhoon a lashed steamroller has rolled loose on deck, crushing coolies until, owing to the cowardice of his third officer (Lewis Stone), Captain Gaskell is forced to rechain it almost singlehanded. When the pirates board the Kin Lung they first attach a Malay boot to Captain Gaskell's right foot.* Says oily MacArdle: "Why, it's breaking my heart to see you suffer like this. I can't bear it. . . . Please tell them where it is. . . ." Then the pirates begin reaching into the ladies' dresses for their jewels. Routed...
Beyond Mumtaz, France's medieval Eleanor of Aquitaine presides at a Court of Love as King Louis VII rides angrily home from the Crusades. At her feet, in the East Indies, slaves give a Malay lady a pedicure...
Today typhus is endemic in the Southeastern U. S., Mexico, Ireland, the Balkans, the Malay States...