Identifier: britishmalayaac00swet (find matches)
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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rifiedby the stories they heard in the village, they were replacedby an equal number of men from Singapore, not so mildor well behaved, but better fitted for the duty. In themonths which followed I travelled by steam launch, boat,and on foot over every district in the State ; they werelaborious days and full of surprises, nearly always of anunpleasant description, but it was all new, useful, andcrammed with incident and interest. I wandered intoPerak on one side, returning by a march of many days,and an eventful journey down an unexplored river, wherefor three days we (there were four Malays with me) neversaw a human being or a habitation. I strayed into SungeiUjong and paid a surprise visit to the old Dato Bandar,the Water Lord of that State. He was not overcordial, but when he heard that, for the first time, therewas a white man in his village he sent a message to say hewould see me, and he took the trouble to explain some ofthe causes of his difference with the rival King, the Land
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SIR yxNURiav clarki*: 187 Lord. I walked on to visit this latter chief aiul foundwith him Mr. Pickering, who had been sent up in Octoberin response to an urgent request from the Dato Klana(he was the Land Lord) that the Governor would helphim to bring the Dato Bandar to reason. The DateBandar was passing old, as Malays go, and also passingwicked, even for his age and times ; but he had far morecharacter than his younger joint-chief, and declined abso-lutely either to change his ways, give up any of the privi-leges he claimed, or come to terms. The Governor hadwritten him several letters and bidden him to a meeting;but he declined all advances, refused to see any one, andelected to remain in his tents; that is to say, he remainedin his own stockaded village, a place called Kapayang,and practically invited any one to come and draw him wholiked the job. It was not my business, but so far as Icould see it was a very pretty quarrel as it stood, and fromwhat I heard from Pickering, it was n

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