My Friends the Savages Notes
My Friends the Savages Notes by Giovanni Battista Cerruti is available here as the complete text, split into 475 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) by Giovanni Battista Cerruti. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #28189.
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- Chapter I Chapter 1
- Chapter II Chapter 2
- Chapter III Chapter 3
- Chapter IV Chapter 4
- Chapter V Chapter 5
- Chapter VI Chapter 6
- Chapter VII Chapter 7
- Chapter VIII Chapter 8
- Chapter IX Chapter 9
- Chapter X Chapter 10
- Chapter XI Chapter 11
- Chapter XII Chapter 12
- Chapter XIII Chapter 13
- Chapter XIV Chapter 14
- Chapter XV Chapter 15
- Chapter XVI Chapter 16
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- Notes
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- Observations
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- Perak
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- Settler
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