Identifier: indiamalaysia00thob (find matches)
Title: India and Malaysia
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Thoburn, J. M. (James Mills), 1836-1922
Subjects: Methodist Episcopal Church Missions
Publisher: Cincinnati, Cranston & Curts New York, Hunt & Eaton
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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t of Portuguese power. It was wrested from the Portu-guese in 1641 by the Dutch, who held it, without, however,keeping up its former prosperity, till 1795, when it was cap-tured by the English. It was restored again to the Dutch in1818, but a little later was again and permanently restoredto the English. It had declined steadily from the time thatthe Portuguese were expelled, not only from Malacca itself,but from all the adjacent seas; and when the Dutch tooktheir departure, and the English established their head-quar-ters, first at Penang and later at Singapore, Malacca fell intorapid decay. In recent years, however, it has rallied, and isnow said to be a prosperous town. Large numbers of indus- THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. 509 trio us Chinese have settled there, and it will no doubt remaina local center of some importance. The Malay Peninsula is a long, narrow strip, which ex-tends from Burma southward to Singapore. The upper endof the peninsula nominally belongs to Siam; but it is very
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THE SLXTAN OF JOHORK- doubtful if tlie Siamese Government could assert its authorityin any part of this territory if the people themselves objectedto the arrangement. In former years the Siamese ruled overthe whole peninsula; but from time to time they wereobliged to release their hold upon one part after another,until now their rule in the North is little more than nomijial. 510 INDIA AND MALAYSIA. In the meanwhile the English have extended their authorityover a number of the small States of which the peninsula ismade up. These States are, for the most part, ruled by Mo-hammedan princes known as Sultans.* Six of them havebeen formally proclaimed as Protected States.^ The word*^ protected^ may be accepted as equivalent to prospect-ively annexed/^ and is somewhat similar to the phrase sphereof influence/^ as used at the present time in Africa. TheStates thus protected at the present time are the following:Perak, Selangore, Rembau, Jelebu, Negri-Sembilam, and Pa-hang. For all practical

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