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earth/' Tie also informs us that, owing to the 

 streets having a bamboo hedge on either side, 

 and to the miserable r/f/tr// housts, (the only wood- 

 en building was the kmg s palace), bein^; sur- 

 rounded by cocoanut, and other, trees, Fahaiig 

 presents the appearaiice ratlier of those gardens 

 that are generally met with iu the vicinity uf a 

 large town than of the city itself. Thi* descrip- 

 tion is fully corroborated in all its es^seniials by a 

 much moie modern traveller, the Rev. W. H, 

 Medliurst, the Engri:>U niisj^ionary at Batavia, 

 who visited Pahang in the middle of 182^. 



This gentleniau informs us * that the town of 

 Pahang, which lies on eillier side of the river» is 

 situated four or €ve miles from the mouth, the 

 Chinese CV/wpowg beiug ou the leitf bank and 

 consisting of miserable oitap houses, raised, m all 

 buildingss are in Ultra Gangetic India, about *ive 

 ileet from the j^round. 



The disagreeablcuess of the picture is conside- 

 rably heightened b\ the iiisurterable stench arising 

 from the collection of the filth which the Chinese, 

 in those places wliere they have not partially 

 adopted European customs, allow to accumulate 

 beneath their houses, for these people, althous;h 

 they boast of tlieir civilization, combine the 

 gross feeding of the Greenlander with a disregard 

 of personal comfort and cleanliness rnieriofi 

 to that of the Hottentot. Tbii; rt^n, lh. applies 

 principally lo the lower order.i. On the opposite 

 bank, ^tatidsthe Maky Otmpor^i*, or town, which 

 Mr. Med hurst informs us, is ^' surrounded by an 



• Mlstlonary Ooaitorty Chronicle, Vol. 4 p. H£» & Ret(. 

 j I sospect thai Mr. M. liL'i e rylltn iiitr> th<^H '.mui'Mi f>i r.*rof «peak- 

 iug of itie liver fls he entered it, irtjiU iiil »rcl' t - wtih 



referrncs toihe ccurite of ihe siipam- All Hi , iLr., 



are on the rii'A4 tmik, u the obserrex looks/ro-^j u;e cju. .!. ut lui- iivtr* 



