The Golden Chersonese: Singapore, Malacca, Singei, Ujong, Selengor, Penang and PerakEven in the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Isabelle Bird, by then an established travel writer, was able to refer to the Malay Peninsula as an almost unknown land. Travelling back from Japan, the intrepid travel writer stopped off in Singapore where the British Colonial Secretary offered her the opportunity to vist the native states of the Western Archipelago. Because she had such a good introduction, she went and was taken everywhere by local officials. And so Miss Bird's journey was less rugged than her many other trips, but, rather more comfortable and well connected, she enjoyed it immensely. |
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6 Faithful unto Death Foreign DevilsJunks and BoatsChinese | 6 |
LETTER I | 28 |
LETTER II | 35 |
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