Excerpt from Our Tropical Possessions in Malayan India: Being a Descriptive Account of Singapore, Penang, Province Wellesley, and Malacca; Their Peoples, Products, Commerce, and Government Hitherto but little has been given to the world concerning it, and to the great bulk of untravelled Englishmen it is known only as a distant Indian station, where manufactures are sold and produce bought under the sweltering heat of an equatorial sun. Indeed, an existence there is viewed as an exile of the worst description, to be compensated only by the wealth which it is reputed to bring. But those who have endured that exile can tell a far different tale of the condition of life in the tropical garden and those at all acquainted with the high roads of Eastern trade. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.