Identifier: britishmalayaac00swet (find matches)
Title: British Malaya: an account of the origin and progress of British influence in Malaya; with a specially compiled map, numerous illustrations reproduced from photographs and a frontispiece in photogravure
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Swettenham, Frank Athelstane, Sir, 1850-1946
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Publisher: London, Lane
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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f the game, were almost askeen as the Malays. The one considerable body ofChinese lived in and around Kuala Lumpor, and as theywere the only workers in the country, and their singlemeans of communication with a market was by theKlang River, they had made friends with three Rajas(the sons of the Chief of Lukut), who held the villageand forts of Klang. These brothers were driven fromtheir position by three famous warriors. Raja Mahdi,Raja Mahmud, and Seyyid Mashhur, whose names were,to the western Malay States, what that of the BlackDouglas was once to Scotland. Just at this time the brother of the Sultan of Kedahmarried a very comely and intelligent daughter of theSultan of Selangor, and as a marriage of this kind entailsa long residence at the home of the bride, the KedahRaja thought he could improve it by introducing orderinto the disordered household of his father-in-law. Hetherefore persuaded the latter to appoint him Viceroy ofSelangor. That was all very well, and there the Sultan
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THE STRAITS FROM 1867-73 129 washed his hands of the business and returned to hisgarden; but while the discomfited brothers were quiteready to acknowledge the new Viceroy, the other partylaughed at him, took all the tin which came down theKlang River, and sent their friends to attack the Chineseat the mines. The Viceroy had supporters in the colony,both Europeans and Chinese, and, with their money andthe countenance of the Straits Government, he succeededin retaking Klang and relieving Kuala Lumpor. Thecurious thing was that each party in turn and each in-dividual leader made periodical visits to the old Sultan,complained bitterly of the other side, and asked for tin ormoney, arms and ammunition. To all comers, from what-ever quarter, the Sultan seemed always to signify hisapproval, and, with strict impartiality, made gifts of somesort. All the combatants, therefore, declared that theywere acting with the sanction and authority of the Sultan.Long afterwards I asked the Sultan what it

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