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and Malays. With the former it is not necessary to deal in this paper, 

 but I would only state that, taking into consideration the class to 

 which they belong the coolie class they are peaceful, law-abiding 

 citizens. They are industrious, hard-working men, and without them 

 the Federated Malay States would not have reached the advanced 

 state they have reached at the present day. 



THE MALAYS. 



I was very much surprised to see in a geography published so 

 recently as last year, 1905 (Twceddale Geography, 3), the statement : 

 " The Malays are nearly all pirates, and are much dreaded ". A short 

 sentence more misleading would be difficult to construct, for although 

 such a description may have applied to the Malays of forty or fifty 

 years ago it certainly does not apply to-day. A better description 

 and one that I have seen or heard somewhere is : " The gentlemen of 

 the East ". 



The Malays are nearly related to the Mongolian type. They are 

 brown in colour, with dark coarse hair and dark or brown eyes. 

 They are short in stature and well built with prominent high cheek 

 bones, flat noses and thick lips. They are lazy, and comparatively 

 useless as workmen, but they are keen sportsmen, and will work 

 harder when there is the prospect of something to kill than for any 

 other reason. They are easy-going and good-tempered, kind to their 

 children, and always anxious to please. Although they do not show 

 much emotion they resent slights, and are not very forgetful of 

 injuries. Although they may not show anger at the time they are 

 apt to brood over injuries. Every now and again one hears of a 

 Malay running amok from brooding over real or fancied injuries. 

 When they do run amok they do not necessarily vent their anger 

 on the evildoer, but on whoever should chance to be nearest at the 

 time. Cases of amok are not very frequent, and they seem to be 

 getting less frequent now than formerly. 



The favourite occupation of the Malays is gossiping and day 

 dreaming. They will sit for hours under the shade of a tree in a 



