Title: British Malaya: an account of the origin and progress of British influence in Malaya; with a specially compiled map, numerous illustrations reproduced from photographs and a frontispiece in photogravure
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Swettenham, Frank Athelstane, Sir, 1850-1946
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Publisher: London, Lane
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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THE STRAITS OF MALACCA 7 on the other spaces of water, green or blue, grey or blood-red, molten silver or black, under the varying conditionsof sunlight and shadow, of eastern day or eastern night.There are no Malay villages, no country scenes, morepicturesque than those of Malacca; and if the visitorchances to meet a wedding party in bullock carts, or aMalay funeral procession ; if he witnesses a fleet of fishingboats putting out at sunset, or homing at dawn ; and haseyes to see and to appreciate the colours, the move-ment, the strange people with their strangely beautifulsurroundings, the scene will live in his memory for alltime. Singapore is 120 miles south-east of Malacca, a few milesnorth of the southernmost point in Asia ; the island standssentinel at the narrow gate which divides the Straits ofMalacca from the China Sea. A dozen ocean-goingsteamers pass into or out of its harbours every day, andmost of these vessels call at no other port in the Straits.By good fortune, it comm

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