THE MALAY PENINSULA, 



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being calW 41 Bpngfjuli," the Gujuiutig " Ora-Tig Bum lei" anil tin.' 

 Ctri-^iles; H Orung Suh>m ,J Among*! th» Indians must be iiidudnl 

 (tcjjuo RaiithiilH, KuIb, and other low caste tribee employed on tho 

 plantations* 



Other foreign elements are the Ara.Ua-, generally lutfrmih^W with their 

 Malay oo.rcligjoiii*t3 ; the Jews ami Armenian?), most I v tmders who keep 

 almf from tlio surrounding population ; the MO-mlleA " Ponugin-Hi " of 

 the Strait* Settlement*, who nave become darker mid often HW more 

 degraded than the Mnlays themselves, while claiming descent from the 

 AllnLi]ner*pti'-o, ttatrro, Smiwu, and other fainniH |iiun<rns ef European 

 eullurn in tin- (:ir K:tsl ; I.Litly tin- Knu'lisdi, I • i » ■ 1 1 >■ nni .-hunts, oHuduE.s, 

 and planter*, but nowhere forming pcrmnnout local coiuin unities. 



CHAPTER IV. 



POLITICAL DIVISIONS— PIAME6E AND niHTlPit DIVISION'S— HESOUECES — 

 T II ADE— GOV KltJJ 31 KN'J" — H UJTOUT* 



Politically the Peninsula is partly held directly by Great Britain 

 ami Stan), end partly divided amongst n number of potty Malay 

 St.ii. », either tributary to or in treaty with these paramount 

 powers. 



The influence, of Shmi exU-mlH over the whole of the Korthem 

 Division, although south of tlic 7th parallel* where the Siamese race 

 gives place to llie Malayan ,* this influence is little more than a 

 nominal and t radii itmal awt'iidnnry. suHi na a ^re.tt power must 

 invcssnrLly i-xercisc over a small neighbouring Smiiv, ffymln dined liy 

 fho old custom of presenting a trieunhil gold flower lo the king of 

 Sinm, But even this custom never extended south of n line drawn 

 from Ksdah Peak on the west const (5° 40' N>) to the northern 

 frontier of Pahang (4° 35' which defines approximately the 

 «y nt hern limits of all the land more or less tributary to Si am. 



The rent of the Poniusnla, which til one belongs to the British 

 political system, is occupied partly by tho British possession**, 

 grouped under the collective name of Ihc "Slruita Settlements 1 ' ; 

 partly by Perak and some other protected States on tho west const, 

 whic h are now in effect under British administration ; partly by some 

 more or less indi'j'^ri.l. ill Malay Stairs, which nn:s1 alm> k: regarded 

 as forming part of the general British protectorate over the wln.de of 

 the Southern Division of the Peninsula 



