CHAPTER IU. 



Peoples or Mai.aysia. 



China is a cup full to the brim. Four 

 luindred and forty millions of people, with 

 thcir prescnt methods of agriculturc, and 

 the comparative absence of manufactories 

 and mining, etc, can scarcely find room 

 to live in tbe over-populous Empire. On 

 the other side is India. witb over three hun- 

 dred milboOs of pcople, at an even lower 

 range of economic devc!opment Where 

 shalt thc overflow of India and China be- 

 take itself? India begins to send a rill of 

 imimgration to Soutb Africa, and the time 

 will comc wben a large Indian population 

 will be found on African soil. But another 

 rill has started from India soutbeastward. 

 Every agitation and every stir of intelli- 

 gencc tends to remove from both the China- 

 man and Indian his fear of traveling to 

 foreign lands. Both India and China are 

 spilling over into these great, fertile islands 

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