PREFACE. 



Six of the articles in this volume have 

 appeared before, and for permission to 

 reprint them my thanks are due to the 

 editors of ' Blackwood's/ 'The Pall Mall/ 

 6 Macmillan's,' and ' Temple Bar/ 



The first article is intended to be an 

 introduction to, or setting for, the others, 

 regarding which I need say no more than 

 that they are accounts of personal incidents, 

 and they range through different States of 

 the Malay Peninsula, and cover many years. 



GEOKGE MAXWELL. 



PENANG, 

 January 1907. 



