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fried, with varying success, to maintain a irmlin^ ]iimm|u-.ly „f thn tin fur 

 15i> yearn, but "their jlCCi.' tLi]i£r- to obtain a fuutii>£ wvhj llh^u n.'ssfu], ami 1 1 

 Kuru|n.nn inttitrfurt'iLft' willj Purak la'amul until \$\H. In eimsiipHiiieu of 

 the cession of Malacca to the Dutch in that year, the Pinnjig Government 

 tmtcred into Co mm bit 1*1 treaties with Perak, among nther Native States, in 

 ■.•IvIit It) fyin-s-Lull ..my Hn-Ai ittK-motsj at- Dutch monopoly. 



Tlibi alLiiiiiu't! proved useful tu Pi-r,ik a f-'iv jvar* Un-r, when tlm Siarrw'ss 

 iitl. mplud tu overrun thu eouatry, hul wsTt." cheeks 4 by tin: Britidi 

 authorities at Piniing, 



Thu rvuetit dm'uTopttielit of events datos from thfl rise! of La rut into 

 importance under Npnh jnfar t in 1852, cojiHKpeut U|ion the discovery «f 

 fin- ik'li tin iIi-]Hwi1>i liu-lv. The t'hhu-si.- tin-it i niu • in ^r-fat numbers, and 

 before long thf! Malay Government naturally Ml to pieces. After some 

 year* of anarchy, Governor Sir Andrew Clarke interfered in January 

 1874, and thu Puugkor Treaty wan made, fotfOdllriJOg the " Protected 

 Statu*" 1 experiment, 'fhu small rising thai bronrrlit upon Peruk a military 

 nriMipation, at'tor tint aftsassituUioii of tho first Resident, Mr Hindi -! I S 7 Ti i ^ 

 |i.->.l lo l liu adoption uf the irioru robust jmliey undi-r wliirh JVr.ik Inn nimhi 

 its ftuhsunUBiit rapid advances. Tho Statu haii rpdtw recently o^ned tho 

 :itat i ail way in the K-niubuhi. 



SElAngor, — The Protected State of anger adjoins Perak along 

 it* whole southern frontier. It iu situated between the parallels of 

 ,i° 45' and 2 a 40' 8.j with a rather greater extent of coast-lino on 

 tJie east shore of the Straits than its northern neighbour Pcrak. 

 Area between 4000 and 5000 square miles, Population about 50,000. 



STtilugor is separated from I'ernk by the BfirflUU river, which 

 forms its northern boundary* Its extent along the coast is about 

 100 railw, as far as the river Nipah to tho south (since the 1877 

 boundary was fixed}, and then by & lino drawn in IftftJ to the north 

 iiml east aw far as the hills which divide it from Jelfibu* 



Stlangor is a coiupnrahv. ly recent State, the western part of its 

 territory having apparently been left unoccupied from time out of 

 mind, to & greater degree than any other portion of the Peninsula. 

 The Huiithcni division was formerly a separate State— Klang(Kelaiig) 

 — one of the four original States of ttio '* Negri Sednbilau " eon- 

 fed TUt inn . 



Under the name of SPfangor arc included futr main distriets. each 

 li-iviny; ii eonsiderable river, named rewpec lively B&rMtO, S'langor, 

 Klang, and Langat; Be main to the north, nnd the ntliem further 

 SOttUi in the order in which they are named- With tlio exception 

 of Klang and the mouth of llie river Sfdsngor. the whole territory 

 df the State was nbsnlutely ttrra iMmpiita until ipiite lately. Lfikut, 

 now comprised it> the Sungei Cjoog frontiers, was formerly part of 

 S^li'ingyr. Seing riefr in tin found clone to the Blum 1 , mid being 1 

 Miiuated at a tlodanco of only 40 luihn from Malacca, this district 

 wos t under a former liajs, the moat thriving in ScL^iigor, 



