324 THE RULING FAMILY OF SELANGOR. 
“the score of piracy, man-stealing, manslaughter, and similar 
“ pneccadilloes of the code of Malayan morals.’’* 
12. Of the Malay population of the State at the present 
day there is little to say, except to emphasize the contrast 
noted by an eminent authorityt between “the frank simpli- 
‘city and humour, harmonising well with a certain grave 
‘‘ dignified self-possession and genuine politeness, which cha- 
‘‘racterise the manner of the Malays of Kedah, and the sinis- 
“ter and impudent bearing of the maritime and seml- piratical 
“ Malay of the South.” f 
There is now a large population, of settlers from Sumatra 
and Java, who are influencing materially the character of the 
Muhammadan population. 
% * x * 
Moors’s Notices, p. 243. 
+ The late Mr. J. R. Locan. 
t Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, vol. xvi, p. 321. 
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