Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . oSir Stamford a section of land ten miles along the shore, and a BRITISH n OMLXA J I ON. 20I cannon-shot from the beach. This was the first step. In ashort time the company induced the prince to give up thewhole island ; and from this beginning has grown the StraitsSettlements Col-ony, one of
Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . oSir Stamford a section of land ten miles along the shore, and a BRITISH n OMLXA J I ON. 20I cannon-shot from the beach. This was the first step. In ashort time the company induced the prince to give up thewhole island ; and from this beginning has grown the StraitsSettlements Col-ony, one of themost promisingprovinces in theempire of GreatBritain. Thelaw of Britishdomination is thesame in Malaycountries as inthe H i n d o olands. Begin-ning as a tradingpost, the end isalways the same—the possessionof the countrynominally orreally, eitheractual occupa-tion and govern-ment, or the re-cognition of theBritish as a para-mount ParamountPower is the setphrase in Asiaticpolitics. The policy of her rulers is that no door should beclosed to the Englishman, and that once he is admitted heshould be recognized as a Paramount Power. There seems tobe no end to such a policy but absorption, and the will thatgoverns Singapore to-day will be the master of the Malaypeninsula in a few I kOlK \L 202 THE STRAITS OF MALACCA. The two races you meet at Singapore are the Chinese andthe Malays. Of the Chinese I shall have to speak when wecome within the limits of that vast and teeming empire. Wehave seen the Chinaman ever since we arrived in Rangoon, andhis influence is the most useful in Asia, in the development ofindustry and commerce. The testimony on this point was un-varying. The Malay gives way to the Chinaman, and becomesa bearer of burdens. There are three classes of Malays—thefishermen, who I suppose were pirates in the free days ; thesavages, who live in the jungle; and the civilized class, whichhas a literature and a language. The civilized Malays
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