Identifier: countriesofworld04brow (find matches)
Title: The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Brown, Robert, 1842-1895
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Publisher: London New York : Cassell, Petter, Galpin & co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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; upon, there is an unspeakable eliarm about thes)«it. The air is cool, even bracing; and here, with the shade of a group of forest treeswliicli the :iNc iiad purjwsely spared, we see the rich blossoms of orchids depending fromthe boughs, and breaihe an atinosphen; saturated with the j)erfume which these strangelybeautiliil jilants dilVuse. Snngless birds twitter or croak among the foliage above, or elsebeiieatli tile -ilinibs, wliieii the eonvnlviiliis has decked with a hundred variegated flowers.Here and there the slender stem of the aloe, arising from an armoury of sjwtted leaves,lifts its cone of white bells on high, or the deep orange i)ine-ai>()Ie jxeps out from agreen belt of lieshy foliage, and breathes its riix; fragrance around. * The chief drawljackto life in Singapore is the intense heat, which to a European constitution is very trying,
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JAVANKSE MUSICIANS. and among other disorders causes the prickly heat, perhaps one of the minor tropicaldiseases, but nevertheless a sufficiently troublesome one. Pfiintip, Pulo-Penang,* or Prince of ^^ales Island, about 13A miles long and 5-10 broad,with an area of 107 square miles, is another settlement off the west coast of the MalayPeninsula, at the northern entrance or extremity of the Strait. It is of older date thanSingaiMire, fur as early as 17SG it was ceded to the Government of India by the Rajahof tiuwlah, a neighbouring Malay government, or rather by Captain Light, who marriedthe Rajahs daughter, and received the island as her dowry. In 1871, its population was01,7.I7. In )iicturesqueness it surpasses Singapore. It is also healthier, and at the capital(Georgetown^, on Strawberry Hill, 2,000 fc.et above the sea, has for long existed a sort ofsanitorium for the rest of the Straits Settlements. A belt of bright yellow sand runs,fringed by cocoa-nuts, along the beach ; while b

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