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Malaysia. 



use of tlie drug abound everywhcre, and 

 gambling houses are in all the towns. 

 Many a poor coolie works through a labor- 

 ious month only to end it in a debauch of 

 two or thrce days, in which all his hard- 

 earned money vanishes. What adds much 

 to his tcmptations are the absence of his 

 wife and familv. But stremious efforts 

 arc bcing made to induce these mcn to send 

 for their people, and an increasing number 

 of them arc beginmng to establish their 

 homes in the hmd wherc they earn thcir 

 living. Gradually a more stable population 

 grows up in thc Peninsula, and it is not 

 hard to foresee that scvcral millions of 

 comparatively comfortable and contented 

 Chinese will be found here in the not dis- 

 taut future t in a country administered by 

 Englishmen, while nominally owned by the 

 Malays. 



The Tamils are a people of South India ; 

 noisy, exceedingly tall<ative, faithful, de- 

 voi.it. 1 >1>cdient lo urckrs, and capahle of 

 pnticutly beartng much hardship, To thcrn 

 is given much of the agricultural labor of 

 the land. They grow the siujar cane, the 

 cocoanut, the areca-nut, the pepper, and the 



