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Government here, as elsewhere, has been to leave the extraneous races, 

 OMnprittd within the dominion it assumes, to the administration of their 

 own ruk<r* ; tW Mai tyau Kaja of KtdaTi is thus an hereditary and <pi:uit. 

 in'iL?jw>nil*-iit Hovi>ruigtu Iu tolc^u of Lis dependence on SEam he \im 

 always tent the Kiiifjt ouco iu three years, an offering confuting or aa 

 nrtiliiifil lUiwi-r nl golil. N"i»thnilltsN!ij-liii^ lids, Lin- :iLi<-nnti-il to tlif* 

 Jmlinn Gwrtrjiiiii-rii in 17^0 ,'l!uptn£u l.i-'.t Uir^ tin; Aft-iii) the island of 

 Huang, ami sulisenuently, in ISOo, Provisos WeUesloy on the mainland, 

 without reference to Siam, whose alleged suzerainty wivs neither well 

 niulemtoad nor much onrnmnl at that time. By tho cession of Pinang t 

 Kcdak lost some of its trade, ami though the hVija seems to havo acted 

 within hiH right*, he evidently incurred Slam's displeasure, In 1521 , tha 

 Si:i]in s.' Fl-uili \Aft*r invaded the country, overran it, and afti-r an oocupa-. 

 tinu of aoveral years, abandoned after" ruining it. The prince thnl to 

 Pinang f«r praUtlion, and there Noetfvd mi asylum* His line wan 

 restovod after many years; hul 1 3 1 1- U-:mL.rt<-v <■{ lla- I iiwrnmcjit at Unrig- 

 fci'k to interfere in K&lah affairs has sxucp bct-n accentuated, the King of 

 Siam oven claiming to nominate as well as confirm the liajo. 



Iiigor, the Siamese Lakh on, is tho chief Siamese province in the 

 north-east port of the isthuiiiH. It was founded four centuries ago 

 by the King of Ayuthia, and nearly three- fourth a of tho inhabitants 

 are still Siamese. The capita] i« Ligor, on the north side of Lnkhou 

 Hight, 17' N. hit, 100' 3 12* E. long. Hero resides the Chow Phy* f 

 or governor, who rulca almost absolutely, with power of capital 

 punishment. 



Bengg-brft, tho Siamese SoxgitUl, forma tho most southerly 

 Siamese province on tho cast const. It borders on the Malayan 

 States of the Penmen In, and through its Cliinene governor,, tlio King 

 of Siam has hitherto exercised occasional interference with lus 

 Malayan tributaries. The capital lies under the sdiolter of Toutakini, 

 a large flat island stretching "long the coast, from which it if separ- 

 ated by a deep and narrow channel uf sweet water fed by die Telung 

 (Patching) river, from the Kno Luang mountains. 



Inland front this chorine! are the small and semi-independent 

 Sam-Sam States of Patching and Plean, under a Chinese ifsja* 



The east coast be rug a cornpbu-lv let nhore., there- is scarcely any 

 !• i : i intention between these smidlcr provinces of Siam and tho 

 capital. Nor is there any overland route from Simggora to Bang- 

 kok ; but a road was opened in the opposite direction across the 

 Pcninauhi to KC'dah in 1871, at tho time of the King of Si am a visit 

 to the Straits. 



This northern group of provinces and petty states, comprising 

 altogether some 15 separate divisions, mainly inhabited by Siumesa 

 and Chinese, has a const line of about 200 miles on the cast, and a 

 little more on tin. 1 west side, with ji total area of some 17.000 square 

 miles, and a population vaguely estimated at from 160,000 to 500,000. 



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