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This is not a book of travels, nor is it, in even the smallest sense, the record of a traveller's experience in a foreign land. It is a series of sketches of Malay scenery and Malay character drawn by one who has spent the best part if his life in the scenes and amongst the people described.
These pages contain no statistics, no history, no geography, no science, real or spurious, no politics, no moralizing, no prophecy – only an attempt to awaken an interest in a then almost undescribed but deeply interesting people, the dwellers in one of the most beautiful and least well-understood countries in the East.
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