MALACCA. 
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The Malays and Javanese chiefly fill the posts of coachmen; Klings do most of the 
road-mending, tailoring, and washing, and Chitties the money-lending. It is perhaps only 
from the natives of India that the Chinese meet with any competition in their commercial 
pursuits. The Europeans have their bungalows some distance away in the suburbs, many 
of their gardens being beautifully planted with palms and other tropical plants. The 
clerks employed in offices club together and live in small communities. The hotels were 
decidedly uncomfortable, not one of them coming up to those of Java. 
Thus it is in Singapore that a number of 'different types of the human race are 
collected together—with a variety of colour and style of costume which adds life and 
beauty to the scene, and is at the same time comfortable to the wearers: so different to our 
colder northern latitudes, where pale thoughtful faces peep out of dark-coloured garments, 
making our cities appear in perpetual mourning. The struggle for existence being less 
severe with these children of the sun—food, chiefly rice and fish, being abundant, and fuel 
only required for cooking-purposes—they have few troubles to worry them; with a few 
cents to spare they are happier indeed than any millionaire. 
CHINESE ADMIRATION. 
In a thoroughfare that I often passed through some enterprising barber had imported 
a most magnificent block; it was, I remember, the waxen bust of a lovely female, with 
