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from books, and then you will need many lessons and not a few 

 suggestions from those, who have trod the path of knowledge before 

 you. 



The Malays are in India, settled here and there in different parts 

 of that country. Very many of them are in Malaya, or what is more 

 commonly called Malacca. Look upon your globe, and you will 

 find this country to be the most southerly part of the continent of 

 Asia. It is a vast cape, extending far into the sea. Now I have 

 given you a picture of one of their villages, and told you where they 

 are to be found, tell me, if you can, how you would get to them? 



" I should ride the pony." 



Oh, Sammy ! That would never do. Pony would need grass 

 before he could swim across the water. 



" I should go around the water." 



It would be too cold to cross the ice ; neither you nor pony could 

 stand it. 



" How would you go, Iddy ? " 



"I should take passage in a ship go round Cape Horn visit 

 some of the islands in the Pacific Ocean and then keep on to 

 Malacca." 



Ay, ay, it is for visiting cousins that you are after, I reckon. I 

 think I might go that way to meet an old friend ; but I should not 

 for the sake of seeing whales, or for the quickest voyage. 



" I know the way," says Mary ; " Uncle George always goes round 

 the Cape of Good Hope, and up the Indian Ocean, and his way, I 

 am sure, must be the right way." 



" Right enough," says Master Walley, " till somebody finds a bet- 

 ter one. But for my part I prefer to wait till I can go on Whitney's 

 railroad to Oregon, and then take a short sail across the Pacific. 

 Why should we drag along at six knots an hour, in these days of 

 steam and lightning?" 



Ladies and gentlemen, fix all that to suit yourselves, but of one 

 thing I assure you ; the Malays are a queer people. But I doubt 

 whether I would go far to see them. And for the present, at least, 

 I trust my readers will be satisfied with a few things which I shall 

 tell about them. 



The Malays are a people widely diffused throughout the East. 



