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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im on the surface of the sea. Lookingsouth, the coast line of Pinang curves, crescent-wise, to itsextreme point, and in the land-locked space of water areislands, large and small, clad like the rest in green. Whatis called the South Channel is not often used now exceptby coasting steamers, but the approach to Pinang is evenmore attractive by this route than by the North Channel.The beauty of the place comes more gradually, sinksdeeper into the appreciation, and leaves a picture of formand colour, a sensation of real warmth and real life, whichonly the East can offer. This feeling will be intensifiedif the traveller is fortunate enough to see what I have triedto describe under the glamour of a moonlit night. Yet the pride of Pinang is the Hill, and those who reachthe summit will not regret the effort. Looking westward,the eye travels over a wide expanse of jungle—coveredslopes, and foot hills, pierced by narrow cultivated valleys,till it rests on the measureless expanse of ocean. One
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THE STRAITS OF MALACCA 5 may gaze for hours, fascinated by the ever-changing effectsof sunlight and shadow playing on the mirror of the sea.Northward lie the islands, coast, and sharply outlinedpeak of Kcdah ; while to the south are lower rangesof the main hill, the rice fields and the sinuous coast lineof Pinang. Due west is the ship-board view reversed, onlysoftened by height and distance. There are the woods,with their half-hidden dwellings, leading up to a flat butever-narrowing plain, completely covered by white, red-roofed buildings, broken here and there by groups of darktrees. Then the shining stretch of water, carrying itsburden of ships and boats, the smaller craft looking likequeer black insects; and last, the long coast line of ProvinceWellesley, with its palms and rice fields and winding rivers,the whole bounded by successive ranges of blue hills, themost distant summits lost in clouds. Seventy miles south are just visible some islands offthe coast of Perak, and the trave

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