Title: The sea road to the East, Gibraltar to Wei-hai-wei; six lectures
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Sargent, Arthur John
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: London, Philip
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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THE MALAY REGION 81 life to this old-world settlement. Here is a glimpse of 16the river and here a street in the town ; it is picturesque 17enough, but we miss the life and bustle which we haveseen at Singapore. The island of Penang, together with the strip of themainland opposite, was leased by us from the Sultanof Kedah, over a hundred years ago, at a time when therest of the coast was more or less under the influenceof the Dutch. The rent is still paid regularly to theSultan for the time being. In 1824, we came to anagreement with the Dutch who withdrew all claim to the Straits, while we left them undisturbed in the islandregion further south. This withdrawal of the Dutch,and the possession of Singapore, gave us the entirecontrol of the Straits of Malacca. Since that time therehave been some small additions to the area of Britishterritory, but our chief work has been to bring the nativeStates within our Sphere of Influence. The result inthe last century, as we have already seen, was

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