. British Malaya: Un resoconto dell'origine e del progresso dell'influenza britannica in Malaya; con una mappa appositamente compilata, numerose illustrazioni riprodotte da fotografie e un frontespizio in fotogravura. Tagliafuoco, auto-pentieri, e muratori; come appaltatori costruiscono quasi tutti gli edifici governativi, la maggior parte dei ponti di sabbia stradale, ferrovie e opere d'acqua. Portarono la capitale nel paese quando gli europei temevano il rischio; erano i commercianti e i negozianti, andit erano i loro piroieri che aprirono per la prima volta una regolare comunicazione tra i porti della colonia e il

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. 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. dcutters, car-penters, and brickmakers ; as contractors they constructednearly all the Government buildings, most of the roadsand bridges, railways and waterworks. They brought allthe capital into the country when Europeans feared totake the risk ; they were the traders and shopkeepers, andit was their steamers which first opened regular communi-cation between the ports of the colony and the ports ofthe Malay States. They introduced tens of thousandsof their countrymen when the one great need was labourto develop the hidden riches of an almost unknown andjungle-covered country, and it is their work, the taxationof the luxuries they consume and of the pleasures theyenjoy, which has provided something like nine-tenths ofthe revenue. When it is possible to look back upon asuccessful experiment, it is always of interest to ascertainthe determining factors, and how far each affected theresult. The reader should understand at once what isdue to Chinese labour and enterprise in the evolution. EVOLUTION OF RKSIUKNTIAL SYSTEM 233 of the l-edcrated Malay States. The part played by theMalay has already been told: it was mainly nej^ativc ; howfar the Government officials, the Euroi)ean planters, andthe Indian immigrants contributed to the general develop-ment of the country and the position it now occupies willbe described in a subsequent chapter. In the first ten years or so after the appointment ofBritish Residents mining was usually carried on by a fewChinese capitalists working with their own imported andindentured labourers. The contract was for 360 dayswork, and the coolie received hardly any wages at all, though his passage from China was paid ; he was fed andclothed, occasionally received small sums of money forhimself, and about twenty shillings to send to his friends

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