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lllustttatcd Guide
TO THE
FEDERATED /AALAY STATES.
Edited by CUTHBERT W. HARRISON, of the F.M.S. Civil Service,
WITH
Chapters on Big-Game Shooting, Motoring, Mining
and Museums in the Malay Peninsula.
Seven Illustrations in Colour hv Mrs. H. C. BARNARD, and Thirty-two Reproductions from Photographs
by KLEINGROTHE.
Second Impression, Revised, with Index and improved Map, in Cloth, 2s. 6d. net. Post Free, 2s. 9d.
First Impression, in Leather, 2s. 6d. net. Post Free, 2s. 9d.
MALAY STATES INFORMATION AGENCY, 88 Cannon Street, London, E.C.
CHAPTER I.
Touching briefly on the more notable occurrences
in the history of the country, Mr. Harrison conducts the
traveller from Penang in the north to Singapore in the
south, giving, on the way, descriptions of the principal
towns touched by the railway or adjacent to it—Taiping,
Kuala Kangsar, Ipoh, Tanjong Malim, Kuala Lumpur,
Port Swettenham, Port Dickson, Klang, Seremban. In telling
phrase and with the colour sense of the artist, he describes
the beauties of the jungle, with pictures of Malay hfe and
of the aborigines who dwell remote from civilised man.
Tropical agriculture, as exemplified in the products of
the land—rice and tapioca, coconuts and rubber, coffee and
sugar-cane, and a wealth of fruits—is passed in review, the
genesis of the rubber plantation industry told in brief, while
reference is made in transit through the localities where
these are followed to tin mining and other industries.
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