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apes attap bamboo bananas beasts beautiful birds blue boats British Resident bungalow called Canton Captain Murray chief China Chinamen Chinese clothing coco-nut Colonial colour coolies crowded dark Datu Klana debt-slavery debtors dress Eblis elephant English European feet flowers forest four gharrie gold Government Governor green head heavy hill hundred I. L. B. LETTER island Jakuns jungle kampongs Kedah Klana Klang Klings Kwala Kangsa land Langat river Larut LETTER XX Linggi look Malacca Malay houses Malay Peninsula mangrove swamps Maxwell miles mosquitos native nearly night officers opium palms Pêrak picturesque Pinang police population prison Province Wellesley Rajah rice river roof round sarong Selangor side Sikh silk Singapore sitting slaves Stadthaus steamer Straits Settlements streets Sultan Sumatra Sungei Ujong Taipeng thousand tiger town trees tropical verandah village walk wall women
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Page 30 - Ladrones,' or thieves, from the notorious habits of the old inhabitants. It is situated off the south-eastern coast of China, at the mouth of the Canton river, about 40 miles east of Macao.
Page 311 - Thus departed Hiawatha, Hiawatha the Beloved, In the glory of the sunset, In the purple mists of evening, To the regions of the home-wind, Of the Northwest- Wind, Keewaydin, To the Islands of the Blessed, To the Kingdom of Ponemah, To the Land of the Hereafter!
Page 32 - The position of the island has made it a centre of trade in many kinds of goods. Amongst the principal are opium, sugar, flour, salt, earthenware, oil, amber, cotton, and cotton goods, sandalwood, ivory, betel, vegetables, live stock, granite, &c.
Page 363 - Government; but their special objects should be, the maintenance of peace and law, the initiation of a sound system of taxation, with the consequent development of the resources of the country, and the supervision of the collection of the revenue...
Page 217 - Where falls not rain, or hail, or any snow, Or ever wind blows loudly." We placed our names, with the date of ascent, in a tin within a crevice, and descended to the Ledge, sitting on the smooth granite, getting our feet into cracks and against projections, and letting ourselves down by our hands, "Jim...
Page 337 - ... numerous followers are clustered on and about the stairs. He never raises his voice to a native, and they look as if they like him, and from their laughter and cheeriness they must be perfectly at ease with him. He is altogether devoted to the interests of Perak and fully carries out his instructions which were 'to look upon Perak as a native state ultimately to be governed by native rajas', whom he is to endeavour to educate and advise 'without interfering with the religion or custom of the...
Page 115 - ... fiercely I thought, with a fierce face ; but it occurred to me that he was trying to make me understand that they wanted to wash decks, so I lifted my mattress on a bench and fell asleep again, waking to find the anchor being let go in the Malacca roads six hours before we should have arrived. I...
Page 14 - ... adaptation of it, however, to the condition of society into which it has been transplanted, it has hitherto proved as little beneficial to the subject and to the state as either the Adat Bang d'hulu, or the statutes of Mohammed. Sir Stamford Raffles justly observed, in an able paper to Lord Minto,—" Nothing has tended more decidedly to the deterioration of the Malay character, than the want of a well defined and generally acknowledged system of law.
Page 259 - Sultan receive and provide a suitable residence for a British Officer to be called Resident, who shall be accredited to his Court, and whose advice must be asked and acted upon on all questions other than those touching Malay Religion and Custom.
Page 129 - ?. for £260, read 8260. villages of the Malays. Though the Malay builds his dismal little mosques on the outskirts of Malacca, he shuns the town, and prefers a life of freedom in his native jungles, or on the mysterious rivers which lose themselves among the mangrove swamps. So in the neighbourhood of Malacca these kampongs are scattered through the perpetual twilight of the forest. They build the houses very close together, and whether of rich or poor the architecture is the same.