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A Journal kept during an Expedition undertaken to capture 
Datoh Maharaja Lela of Perak. 
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x2, N the autumn of 1875, when the recent purchase of the 
Suez Canal shares was the topic of the day, an event 
occurred which temporarily turned public attention upon 
a very remote part of Her Majesty’s dominions in the 
East. The Colony of the Straits Settlements (Singapore, 
Penang and Malacca ) had, a year or two before, under- 
taken new responsibilities by extending its political influence 
among the Independent States on the West coast of the Malay 
Peninsula. In October, 1874, a British Resident (Mr. Biron) 
had been stationed in Perak. In November, 1875, after little 
more than a year of office, he was murdered by Malay subjects of 
the State. The crime was distinctly political, and it was followed 
immediately by the despatch of a military and naval force to 
Perak. 
A column under General Cotgognre (now Sir Francis Cotr- 
BORNE, K.c.B.) advanced up the country from the South and 
penetrated as far as Kinta—Sultan Ismarz’s capital—which that 
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