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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atches, pianos andpickaxes. Behind the ships, and wharves, and docks, andwarehouses are roads, with a ceaseless traffic of people, carts,and carriages ; then villages and green hills, chequered byhouses and gardens. Across the waterway there are stillislands, far as the eye can reach ; but they are curvingseawards, and whilst those nearest are covered, or partlycovered, by buildings and chimneys, or groups of Malay hutsstraggling off the land right out into the water, as thoughthey had walked there on stilts, there are others green withpineapples or jungle, and others still, away in the distance,like opals on the shining surface of the water. It is athousand to one that the vessel, which brings the strangerfrom a distance, will tie up alongside the wharves, and hewill then enter the town by a drive along a dusty, crowdedroad. The more excellent way is that of the small steamerwhich, skirting the long line of wharves, makes for theroads and gives the traveller the best and most compre-
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THE STRAITS OF MALACCA 9 hensive view of the Lion City, Queen of Far EasternSeas. Between the docks and the town, a bold headland,crowned by a battery, juts out into the water, and formsthe southern horn of a crescent which embraces the wholecity ; till the land curves round to a far distant point,where a thick grove of palms faintly indicates the northernhorn. Singapore from the Roads is very fair to see. FromMount Palmer (the fortified headland), to the SingaporeRiver—that is, about one-third of the crescent—there is anunbroken mass of buildings, shining and white, facing thesea. The next third is green with grass and trees, throughwhich are caught glimpses of public buildings and thespires of churches, backed by low hills, on one of which, inthe distance, stands white and stately the Governorsresidence. The remaining third is again covered by closelypacked houses, seen indistinctly through a forest of masts.The space enclosed by the beach and a line drawn fromhorn to horn of th

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