Worth reporting for what it’s worth: in our
near neighbourhood here, walking distance more or less, the remains of persons
directly related to the foremost giants of human history & civilization.
There exist no bigger names in the annals of mankind. First cab off the rank,
detailed in the newspaper of the weekend just gone: within the grounds of the
old Chinese Bukit Brown Cemetery, visited not a fortnight past with the guide
Gabriel, a direct descendant of the great guru Confucius, interned in that soil.
Something like a cool ten thousandth branch of the family, lying here among us. Not to
be undone, the Muslim Malays too can boast a comparable figure. No less than a
teacher, another guru —not in fact of
the Prophet himself (as mistakenly first reported), but of his household. Tutor to the Prophet’s kith,
kin & servants. This sage is held within the earth of Tanjung Pinang, two hours
away on the ferry on the island of Bintan. Long bows, but such be the reports.
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