. Rural sanitation in the tropics : being notes and observations in the Malay Archipelago, Panama and other lands. ssume a certain control over the native degrees, and to the great advantage of the wholeland, the administration passed into the hands of theBritish. Peace being established, the Malay nowfelt secure, and in a land so fruitful soon accumulatedwhat to him was untold wealth. Sure of the fruits oftheir labour, the Chinese poured into the country,and worked with such vigour that the FederatedMalay States have for a generation past producedalmost two-thirds of the worlds tin.
. Rural sanitation in the tropics : being notes and observations in the Malay Archipelago, Panama and other lands. ssume a certain control over the native degrees, and to the great advantage of the wholeland, the administration passed into the hands of theBritish. Peace being established, the Malay nowfelt secure, and in a land so fruitful soon accumulatedwhat to him was untold wealth. Sure of the fruits oftheir labour, the Chinese poured into the country,and worked with such vigour that the FederatedMalay States have for a generation past producedalmost two-thirds of the worlds tin. Wisely expend-ing the revenue from tin on roads and railways toopen up the country, the administrators attractedplanters from Ceylon, who grew coffee, rubber, andcocoa-nuts, and turned useless jungle into wealth bothfor themselves and the country ; until in the space ofone generation the country became one of the mostprosperous on the globe. HISTORICAl. OUTLINE 5 Towns with well-built houses, broad streets, andpure water-supplies have sprung into existence whereonly a few years ago the tiger hunted his prey-. Fig. I.—Map of South and East Asia. There are schools for the children, hospitals for thesick, and pt«:e-4ustice for the litigant and lawless;while posts, telegraphs, roads and railways, second 6 BRITISH MALAYA to none in cheapness, link up the whole land. Andall this prosperity has been built up with labourwhich has been free in the truest and broadestsense of the word. A slave there has never first there was a small percentage of labourindentured to remain on the mine or estate for aperiod not exceeding three years ; but even indentureis now abolished. No coolie can be charged evenwith the cost of bringing him to the country ; whilehe may walk off at any time on giving a monthsnotice, or paying a months wages. The proof ofthe success of the system has been the large numberof poverty-stricken coolies who came from Indiaand China; the large sums remitted back;
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