TUK MALAY n:\IVSi;LA. 



HSman. — The lurgfit and perhaps the most important uf (lie 

 provinces at present ib Roman, lying to the south-cast of the river 

 ami bordering on Perak, with wliich it h closely connected by tics 

 uf intercourse and common interest. It is the most Malayan of ull 

 t hese States; but its Malay Jiaja i* t like I he rest, responsible to the 

 Chow Kttn, orOovernor of Senggura, and must look to bo confirmed 

 by the King of Siam. Hutu liliani, some miles on the east side of 

 the Patrtni river,, is his residence; end the population of tho country 

 is to by found chiefly in this neighbourhood and near the upper 

 valley of the Pirak, which river the Human people use for exporting 

 tin, &c. The boundary with, Perak, near which are the valuable tin 

 mines of Kroh anrl lnt.in p already mentioned in connection with 

 Kcdah, has yet to be determined. 



Jala, situated principally to the north -west of the river Patitrii, near 

 tlif I um il- watern uf ihu Perak, lies under the mint ward cliffs of ilm lm|.] 

 range of iSukit ltrsar. Jalo ia believed to U« one of the richest mineral 

 colon tries in the whole Peninsula, having aLumbm pa^na, tin, atuI g^M 

 already worked at some potato by the Chinese. Like the other mineral 

 countries, it ia intersected by remarkable limestone formations. 



Tin' gah'tui miuea of I'at&tii, which a fi w years ago attracts! much 

 art*' at ion in Singapore, Ha tumr the Kinall town of BanteUu This is 

 situated In a picturesque amphitheatre of hitls, through which tho river 

 flow*, about 4Ji mile* distant from the town of Patani in a straight Ull-, 

 I -ci r ilonliln I hut ilii-l ni.v f.y mvr. 



r-?i i?i<- \>:tr .-J" the lir-r Sutiiish invii^ni, ih v>-ir '■■] [•. •„■ 



nr.,nno j r »|i.-il.it!int^ in tin- State of Patani. In 1332. after the second 

 invasion, then were computed to he only 54,000 people in these provinces, 

 mnl the population has probably not iuerauwd since then, except b regard 

 \<< n-, i.'biin'Si- miinTs win* now mnuln-r M-wr.il (L.iuv-imk 



Tlie southernmost of all the nine provinces collectively termed " Patani" 

 is Sni, beyond which lies lh« ut. 1 impuilaiiL 'il:iliiy:iti Statu of 



Kelantam 



Kelatttan. — South of Patani on the oast const lie Ibe Malayan 

 States of Kolantnn and Trcnggflmi, whose position is one of 

 independence guaranteed by treaty with the British Government, 

 though nominally under some sort of subordinate relation to 



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Kelnntnii ia situated to the south of tho Patani States, the river 

 Banfira being tlie boundary, between 6* 20* and 5° 4C, with 60 

 miles of coast on the east aide, and an area of about 7000 Ripinrc 

 mites; but so little is known of the interior that there is no great 

 ctrtainly about either area or population, It ih in a pr<i.K].er«m«i 

 condition, surpassing in population ull the Native States on the 

 east const, and in natural resources and mineral wealth vying 

 with Pahang. 



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