MALAYS, 
The proportion of Malay Inhabitants 
is fortunately very small, they are an indo¬ 
lent, vindictive, and treacherous People, 
and generally speaking, seem fit for little 
else but cutting down Trees, at which, 
they are very expert. They are incapable 
of any labour beyond the cultivation of 
Paddy. When they procure a small 
quantity of Rice, and some Opium, no 
inducement, so long as those articles last, 
is sufficiently powerful to make them da 
any Work. But though so rude and un¬ 
civilized a race, some of them are most 
excellent Goldsmiths, and work in Filla- 
gvee, in a very beautiful manner* 
