The meeting of two worlds; pioneers and progress; private lives, public values; pyrotechnic in Penang; mutiny!; Halcyon days; pyramids of power; officials and unofficials; the rubber men; the "Mem", the "Missee" and the "Tuan Kechil"; the unprepared society; a campaign of cards; an inexcusable betrayal; terrible forfeits; false dawn; the battle for hearts and minds.
