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In 8elangor, wliicli in 1891 had a population of 140,000, the 

 number was 30,000 in 1879, and the Eevenues, which in 1875 

 amounted to a.bout $100,000, had risen in 1890 to nearly two mil- 

 lions. The duties upon tin and the farms contributed chiefly to 

 this. Gold mine workiogs are also found here, and more agricul- 

 ture than in Perak. It is for this reason that the economical con- 

 dition of this country is supposed to be healthier than that of 

 Perak. Trade here increased in the same proportion, and you find 

 here in other respects the same favourable state of things as in 

 Perak. Selangor had on the 1st January, 1887, still a debt of 

 $500,000, and on the 1st of January, 1891, a cash surplus of 

 1720,000. The port of Selangor is Klang, the terminus of the 

 railway to the capital of the country, Kuala Lumpur, which is 

 situated inland. The Klang Hiver is shallow higher up, and there 

 is for this reason a proposal to extend the railway to the Kuala, 

 and to make a new port there. 



Of fSungei Ujoug and the Negri Sembilan, with respective po- 

 pulations of 24 and 40 thousand (the latter having come so much 

 later under British protection), there is not much to say, except 

 that, with the construction of railways and roads, by the help of 

 advances from the Straits Government, the exploiting of tin and 

 agriculture promises them (especially the last mentioned) a good 

 future. Jelebu, one of the Negri Sembilan, which is rich in tin 

 mines, was, in 1885, joined to Sungei Ujong, which possesses little 

 mineral wealth, and is thus thrown more upon agriculture. It 

 (Sungei Ujong) had formerly not 4,000 inhabitants The revenue 

 in 1886 was $120,000, in 1887 $141,000 and in 1890 had risen to 

 $278,000. On 1st January, 1891, it still owed the Colony $190,000. 

 The port of Sungei Ujong is Port Dickson, with a splendid and 

 safe harbour, from which a railway leads to the capital — Seram- 

 ban. 



The Negri Sembilan had, in 1886, an income of scarcely ^2,500, 

 which, in 1890, had risen to $170,000. On the 1st of January, 

 1891, it owed P80,000 to the Colony. They are thus just begin- 

 ning, but are on the right way. 



Pahang, which possesses rich gold mines, with a population of 

 35,000, had, in ] 890, an income of $62,077 and a debt to the Co- 

 lony of $372,000, to which are to be added the cost of the last 

 war. 



It remains only to mention Johor. This little State with its 

 population of about 100,000 under its enlightened and energetic 



