Malaysia. 



racia! pcculiaritics, thc view is as kaleido- 

 scopic as it is interc Aing. Thc strccts are 

 thronged with jinrickshas drawn by nien, 

 and kritas or carriages clrawn by fast mov- 

 ing Malayan ponies. While amid all the 

 babel of sounds and ilutter of color are heard 

 the honk of thc automobile and the clang- 

 ing of the electric strcct car bells. No more 

 picturescjue strccts are to be seen than these 

 where East and West meet, and whcre side 

 by side may be seen thc crudest fonns of 

 primitive life and rude peoples mingliug 

 with the elaborate outputs of thc highest 

 civilization. In the midst of it all one 

 dwells in perfect security, for the strong 

 hand of a virile pcople makes Singapore 

 as safe as lioston or Pittsburg. 



Singapore is the sixth port of thc world, 

 having a larger tonnagc than Livcrpool or 

 Seattle, and it is the great distributing cen- 

 ter for all the Malay world. llere are 

 found banks of all thc nations — English, 

 French, German, Russian, Italian, Aus- 

 trian, Greek, and American, and to this 

 free port, unvexed by tariff restrictions, 

 come the riches of the Archipelago for 

 trans-shipment to thc ends of the carth. 



