The Aurea Chersonesus–The Conquest of Malacca–The Straits Settlements–The Configuration of the Peninsula–A Terra Incognita–The Monsoons–Products of the Peninsula–The great Vampire–Beasts and Reptiles–Malignant and harmless Insects–Land and Water Birds–Traditions of Malay Immigration–Wild and Civilized Races–Kafirs–The Samangs and Orang-outang–Characteristics of the Jakuns–Babas and Sinkehs–The Malay Physiognomy–Language and Literature–Malay Poetry and Music–Malay Astronomy–Education and Law–Malay Sports–Domestic Habits–Weapons–Slavery and Debt Bondage–Government–'No Information.' Volume to the ever-growing library of the literature of travel. With these explanatory remarks I add my little The reader travel with the traveler, and share his first impressions in On the spot, even with their disadvantages, are the best mode of making To term 'slipshod ' but, on the whole, I think that descriptions written Multiplicity of minor details, treated in a fashion which he is inclined Reader is apt to find himself involved among repetitions, and a The author sacrifices artistic arrangement and literary merit, and the I am quite aware that 'Letters' which have not received any literaryĭress are not altogether satisfactory either to author or reader, for Of my glimpses of Anamese villages, may, I hope, be in some degreeĬommunicated to my readers, even though Canton and Saigon are on the Interest of my visits to the prison and execution ground of Canton, and

This volume is mainly composed of my actual letters, unaltered, exceptīy various omissions and some corrections as to matters of fact. Socrates–'The body is a hindrance to acquiring knowledge, and sight and Help me, and realized every day how much truth there is in the dictum of Of the few resident Europeans and my own observations, I had little to Her see what I saw but beside the remarkably contradictory statements In writing to my sister my first aim was accuracy, and my next to make Or wrong, and I accept the fullest responsibility for them.įor the sketchy personal descriptions which are here and there given, IĪm sure of genial forgiveness from my friends in the Malay Peninsula,Īnd from them also I doubt not that I shall receive the most kindlyĪllowance, if, in spite of carefulness, I have fallen into mistakes. The opinions expressed are wholly my own, whether right On which they may have uttered them in the ease of friendly intercourse,Įxcept in two or three trivial instances, in which I have quoted them as That I have carefully abstained from giving their views on any subjects Of officials everywhere, I feel it to be due to my entertainers to say Of the most recent surveys, and is published here by permission of theĪs I traveled under official auspices, and was entertained at the houses Than is given in my sketches of travel, and are intended to make the Sĕlângor and Pêrak, contain information of a rather more solid character The introductory chapter, and the explanatory chapters on Sungei Ujong, Honest attempt to make a popular contribution to the sum of knowledge ofĪ beautiful and little-traveled region, with which the majority ofĮducated people are so little acquainted that it is constantlyĬonfounded with the Malay Archipelago, but which is practically underīritish rule, and is probable destined to afford increasing employment I hope, however, that my book will be accepted as an Reason that the interior is unexplored by Europeans, half of it beingĪctually so little known that the latest map gives only the position of My letters treat of only its western portion, for the very sufficient

It is by her wish that this book has received the title of the 'GoldenĬhersonese,' a slightly ambitious one and I must at once explain that Letters of which it consists were written, and whose able and carefulĬriticism, as well as loving interest, accompanied my former volumes Heavy shadow of the loss of the beloved and only sister to whom the Of my present volume, which has been prepared for publication under the Japan were received, and to ask for an equally kind and lenient estimate Grateful acknowledgments for the kindness with which my letters from Presenting to the public the last installment of my travels in theįar East, in 1879, I desire to offer, both to my readers and critics, my ( See page 298.)ĪUTHOR OF 'THE HAWAIIAN ARCHIPELAGO ' 'A LADY'S LIFE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS ' 'UNBEATEN TRACKS IN JAPAN ' ETC. The Golden Chersonese And The Way Thither.Ī Celebration of Women Writers The Golden Chersonese And The Way Thither.

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