Volume 1

Miscellaneous papers relating to Indo-China and the Indian Archipelago : second series / [published by Reinhold Rost].

  • Reinhold Rost
Date:
1887
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Credit: Miscellaneous papers relating to Indo-China and the Indian Archipelago : second series / [published by Reinhold Rost]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS. -*■ I. JOURNAL OF AN EXCURSION FROM SINGAPUR TO MALACCA AND PINANG. By J. R. Logan, Esq. [From the “ Journal of the Royal Geographical Society,” vol. xvi. p. 304-24]. The following notes were written in the course of a visit to Malacca and Pinang, in March, 1845. After a residence of some years in the island of Pinang, the writer removed to the younger and more thriving settlement of Singapiir; and having obtained a short period of leisure, after two years of unremitted labour there, he employed that interval in a visit to Malacca for professional purposes, extending his voyage to Pinang. These notes were principally written on the spur of the moment for the amusement of distant friends ; and I have only made some slight additions to render them more intelligible to those who are not so familiar with the Straits as my “constant correspondents” in Scotland by this time probably are, in the belief that, though but shimmings from the surface, they may perhaps be found not to be wholly s uninteresting to those who are desirous of becoming more i familiarly acquainted with our settlements in the Eastern Archi- < pelago. Malacca, March 8, 1845.—Yesterday I was in the midst of ' all the bustle of the Commercial Square at Singapiir, and am 1 now in perfect solitude on a little open bangala on the sea-side, { three miles from the quiet old town of Malacca. I left Singapiir 1 about five o’clock yesterday afternoon in the new steamer Fire Queen, which has just begun to ply between Calcutta and the 3 settlements on the Straits. Among my fellow-passengers there e were two gentlemen from S. America; one of them, extensively 3 concerned in the guano trade, had brought a quantity of guano
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