. Scottish geographical magazine. Perak Malays, Kuala Kangsar, Central Perak. (From Fasciculi Malayenses, Anthropology.) are few, and belong to a somewhat higher class than those who areintroduced by the shipload into the British States; there are practicallyno natives of India in the country. The comparatively small number ofChinamen in the old kingdom of Patani are mostly either traderswho have come on their own initiative, or else descendants of Chinesepirates, who, for centuries, have been making themselves masters ofsmall portions of the coast of the peninsula, and have only lately beench

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. Scottish geographical magazine. Perak Malays, Kuala Kangsar, Central Perak. (From Fasciculi Malayenses, Anthropology.) are few, and belong to a somewhat higher class than those who areintroduced by the shipload into the British States; there are practicallyno natives of India in the country. The comparatively small number ofChinamen in the old kingdom of Patani are mostly either traderswho have come on their own initiative, or else descendants of Chinesepirates, who, for centuries, have been making themselves masters ofsmall portions of the coast of the peninsula, and have only lately beenchecked in so doing. Moreover, there is this further difference; thereis none of the repulsion which a true Malay feels for a Chinaman presentamong the Siamese, and the Malays of those districts under Siameseinfluence have to a certain extent overcome this prejudice, though notto the extent of giving their daughters to a Chinaman in marriage. Itook some trouble in finding out the nationality of Chinamens wives inthe Pat;uii States,

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