Malaysia— Nature's 

 Wonderland 



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CHAPTER L 



Malaysia— Nature's Wonderland. 



Malaysia is the name commonly given 

 to the lands inhabited by the Malay speak- 

 ing peoples of Southeastern Asia. Some 

 liritish geographers prefer the term "Ma- 

 laya," but as other British writers inean 

 by tliis term only the Malay possessions 

 under the British flag\ it bccomes confus- 

 ing to apply it to all the Malay speaking 

 lands over which many tlags rloat. Tn this 

 littlc book, therefore, the term Malay wiH 

 connote only the British possessiona in Ma- 

 laysia. and tlie latter term will be appHed 

 to all the Malay speaking lands. 



Malaysia consists of a peninsula which 

 is the index finger uf ;\sia pointing south- 

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