 Government and people are under to these hardworking capable, and law-abiding aliens. They were already the miners and the traders, and in some instances the planters and the fishermen, before the white man had found his way to the Peninsula. In all the...  The Quarterly Review - Page 401edited by - 1917Full view - About this book
 | Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham - 1906 - 468 pages
...efforts have succeeded in producing more than half of the world's tin supply. Their energy and enterprise have made the Malay States what they are to-day, and...the white man had found his way to the Peninsula. In all the early days it was Chinese energy and industry which supplied the funds to begin the construction... | |
 | 1907 - 816 pages
...efforts have succeeded in producing more than half of the world's tin supply. Their energy and enterprise have made the Malay States what they are to-day, and...these hardworking, capable, and law-abiding aliens. . . . But the Chinese were not only miners ; ... as contractors, they constructed nearly all the Government... | |
 | American Geographical Society of New York - 1907 - 828 pages
...supply. Sir F. Swettenham's judgment on them is worth quoting In extenso: Their energy and enterprise have made the Malay States what they are to-day, and...overstate the obligation which the Malay Government and people'are under to these hardworking, capable, and law-abiding aliens. They were already the miners... | |
 | Carl Crow - 1914 - 346 pages
...with the same turkish-bath climate. This is what he says of the Chinese: "Their energy and enterprise have made the Malay States what they are to-day, and...law-abiding aliens. They were already the miners and traders, and in some instances the planters and fishermen, before the white man had found his way to... | |
 | Carl Crow - 1914 - 344 pages
...with the same turkish-bath climate. This is what he says of the Chinese: "Their energy and enterprise have made the Malay States what they are to-day, and...law-abiding aliens. They were already the miners and traders, and in some instances the planters and fishermen, before the white man had found his way to... | |
 | Carl Crow - 1914 - 344 pages
...law-abiding aliens. They were already the miners and traders, and in some instances the planters and fishermen, before the white man had found his way to the Peninsula. In all the early days it was Chinese energy and industry which supplied the funds to begin the construction... | |
 | James Dyer Ball - 1926 - 784 pages
...have succeeded in producing more than half of the world's tin supply. ' Their energy and enterprise have made the Malay States what they are to-day, and...and people are under to these hard-working, capable, law-abiding aliens.' The total population of the Straits Settlements, in 1891, was 512,905; in 1920,... | |
 | L. C. A. Knowles, Charles Matthew Knowles - 2005 - 584 pages
...efforts have succeeded in producing more than half the world's tin supply. Their energy and enterprise have made the Malay States what they are to-day, and...these hard-working, capable, and law-abiding aliens. ... In all the early days it was Chinese energy and industry which supplied the funds to begin the... | |
 | 1907 - 810 pages
...efforts have succeeded in producing more than half of the world's tin supply. Their energy and enterprise have made the Malay States what they are to-day, and...people are under to these hardworking, capable, and law- abiding aliens. . . . But the Chinese were not only miners ; ... as contractors, they constructed... | |
 | 1924 - 604 pages
...Commissioner for the Federated Malay States: "Their energy and enterprise have made the Malay States whit tney are today, and it would be impossible to overstate...the Malay Government and people are under to these bard- working, capable, law-abiding aliens. They were already the miners and the traders, and in some... | |
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