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in the casting, the work is good and the finish really 
excellent. Trengganu whitemetal-ware is without 
ornamentation of any kind, heavy and takes a fine 
polish. The usual articles made in whitemetal are 
sire^-caskets, trays, covered dishes, bell-mouthed 
spitoons, sir eft-stands of various patterns and stands 
for glasses. 
With regard to brass-ware proper, it is difficult to 
say how much of the old brass of Malayan type which 
can be found in the Peninsula was ever manufactured 
there; but I am of the opinion that very little of it is 
truly native- Some ancient pieces of heavy, and 
usually quite plain, brass-ware can sometimes be pur- 
chased in the neighbourhood of Pekan in Pahang. 
These were, probably, either made locally or else in 
Trengganu, being forerunners of the modern white- 
metal-ware. 
Other old brass-ware is usually poor in quality and 
miscellaneous in type, and though the Malays of 
Brunei and of parts of Sumatra were, and are, most 
skilful workers in brass, there seems to be little reason 
to think that the industry ever flourished on the west 
coast of the Peninsula- When friends speak to 
me of beautiful old Malay brassware, alluding to 
irticles which they believe to have been made in the 
Peninsula, I generally say, “ There isn’t any.” 
Bronze cannon were certainly made by the Malays at 
one time, and Newbold says that these were manufac- 
tured in Trengganu, in Java, and at two places in 
Sumatra, one of these being Acheen. He might also 
have mentioned Brunei, where curious dragon cannon 
and other types were certainly cast. 
