Image: Image from page 103 of "The sea road to the East, Gibraltar to Wei-hai-wei; six lectures" (1912) (14781748671)

Description: Identifier: searoadtoeastgib00sargrich Title: The sea road to the East, Gibraltar to Wei-hai-wei; six lectures Year: 1912 (1910s) Authors: Sargent, Arthur John Subjects: Voyages and travels Publisher: London, Philip Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: Copyrigh Malays ox Plantation. {See page 85. Text Appearing After Image: THE MALAY REGION 81 life to this old-world settlement. Here is a glimpse of 16the river and here a street in the town ; it is picturesque 17enough, but we miss the life and bustle which we haveseen at Singapore. The island of Penang, together with the strip of themainland opposite, was leased by us from the Sultanof Kedah, over a hundred years ago, at a time when therest of the coast was more or less under the influenceof the Dutch. The rent is still paid regularly to theSultan for the time being. In 1824, we came to anagreement with the Dutch who withdrew all claim to the Straits, while we left them undisturbed in the islandregion further south. This withdrawal of the Dutch,and the possession of Singapore, gave us the entirecontrol of the Straits of Malacca. Since that time therehave been some small additions to the area of Britishterritory, but our chief work has been to bring the nativeStates within our Sphere of Influence. The result inthe last century, as we have already seen, was Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
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