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carry in;^ with thciii tUc gold dti^t, 

 ^'liiuti iim fruit uf their Jalioiirj the 

 Malay f goes bravely itt to the jungle 

 and hides bimeclf behind a tree : when 

 the harmless miner pasies the fatal 

 spot, his courageous enemy fires at 

 Ijim almost at the muzz^le of liis l^iitti 

 takes away his gokl dual, and absconds 

 iiittj the thickiiefis of tlie woods. The 

 MaUy Chief, instead of apprehtndinij, 

 and puDi^hln^ the guUtyj finds i^ume 

 sort of subterfuge to excuse himself 

 from doing^ so^ and very often shares 

 in tlie booty with him. fn coming 

 bark from Moutu Ophir, I stayed nn 

 & lijlL formerly inhabited ; the Malays, 

 ivho were my guidesj pointed out to 

 me a tree do&e to which more than 

 thirty Chinese had lot^t life in this 

 way* ITieTin Minerif, ore numer- 

 ic uif, are \es& exposed than those who 

 look after gold ; yet how many du not 

 yearly disappear in the same manner! 

 Often bauds of Malay!):, whom gene- 

 rally Chinese opium smokers join, go 

 in broad day light and attack the tin 

 miners in their own houses. 



The soil of ihc Penhisula, especially 

 that of Malacca, is ntt remarkable for 

 Its fertility ; but In return the i!Sca 

 Coast, rifers and swamps abound with 

 fish, The Horne and bullock are not 

 tiftturfllized in tlie Fcninfiula i but the 

 bufTalocjj arc very iiunicrouB: the 

 Elephants of which ^rcat U6€ is made 

 €lsetvbcr€| arc fouud here iti n wild 



