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Lumpur, Sungei TJjong, Pahang, Eclantan and Patuni. Gold is foimd 
in several places, generally speaking the same as those above-named 
for tin. The pfiiicipal is Jelei in the interior of Pahaui;, tlie gold of 
which brings a higher price by 3% tlian the best Australian gold. Other 
placea are Cheudras, TAong (near Mount (Ji>hir) and Keiantan. llich 
galena ore oeeui*Ji in Patani. Silver haH not been certainly found any- 
where, except in this form* Iron ore h even more abnndant than tin, 
espueially throughout the South of the PeuiusuJa. It has not hitherto 
been worked, us it is in Suniatiu. Coal has, it is said, recently boon found 
to the South of Krit, und some traces of it in Pcrak aud other places ; hut 
it is not yet workecl in any part of the Peninsula. 
Elephants still abound in great numbers ; the one-horned 
rhinoceros, Malay tapir, wild hog, the royal and the spotted black tiger, a 
small bear, the Snnda ox, two kinds of bison (said to be peculiar to the 
Peninsula), the musk-deer and several other kinds of deer. 
G 0 V E E N M E N T . 
AifmiitiHtyatioH. — The only forms of government to be found in the 
Peninsula, nntsidi? the Colony of the Straits Settlements, are either tribal 
and elective, as in Rr-nibau and the contigufjus iulund States, or autocratic 
and hereditary, hke those of the Malay or Siamese HAjas and Governors 
on the seaboard. Something of a tribal fom of rule is to be traced 
in all Malay aduiiui.Ntrations ; and none ul them, whatever ^Jie form, 
appear to he ^' free" States, in any true sense of the word. 
The government of the Colony is thai of the usual ''Crown Colony" 
type, Peuang being represented in the Legislative Council, which sits 
at Singapore. , 
The administration of the three Protected States is unique, and 
peculiar to themselves; and, in its existing form, ciiu hardly prove perma- 
nent. It has been a natural developracut fn-in tlic atatc of things which 
was left after the military oeeupiition of 1875. Supreme power is 
vested ia a State Council, of which the Resident \n the moving spint, 
though it is presided over in Pcrak by the Kegeut in person, and con- 
sists in each State of the highest native authorities as well as the princi- 
pal English otHcials. ^J'he Kesidcnts are directly under tlic Government 
of the Straits Settlements, and have^ of coiirsc, almost the eutire control 
of, and responsibihty for, the atfairs of the State ia which they reside. A 
royalty on the export of tin, in addition to the duty levied on opium, as 
in the Colony, contributes largely to the groffoig revenue of all these Na- 
tive States. 
Hhtorf/, — ^Singapore is the earliest of the Malay Settlements which 
can claim any history. The SPJamh MaldtfH and other Malay annals 
represent Singapftra'' {wluch is known to have been on the same site 
as the present city) as haviug been peopled, not from Menangkahau, as 
is generally supposed, but from the neighbouring island of Bentau, which 
