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Title: British Malaya: an account of the origin and progress of British influence in Malaya; with a specially compiled map, numerous illustrations reproduced from photographs and a frontispiece in photogravure
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Swettenham, Frank Athelstane, Sir, 1850-1946
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Publisher: London, Lane
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ent over animmense fleet and army, and, the gates being duly openedin the dead of night, the Javanese entered and put mostof the inhabitants to the sword. A few escaped from thecity and the island, and after wandering through thePeninsula, settled at Malacca, where they founded a newcity, from which their descendants were driven by Albu-querque and the Portuguese in 1511. In leaving for the present the Malay annals, it is inter-esting to record, in the words of the writer, the dire fateof the Bendahara who betrayed his master, even thoughthe provocation was considerable. By the Power ofGod Almighty, says the annalist, the house of SangRanjuna Tapa (the Bendahara) became a ruin, its pillarsfell, and rice was no longer planted in the land. AndSang Ranjiina Tapa, together with his wife, were changedinto stones; and these are the stones which may be seenlying by the river of Singapura. In comparatively modern times, early in the lastcentury, there was still lying by the river of Singapore
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I IIK kl-; \1. MAl.W I.IiiN MALACCA—EARLY HISTORY 15 a strange stone with an inscription that was nevertK ciphered. The stone has disappeared; by an act of van-dalism it was blown to pieces, and though some fragments\\ rrc rescued and sent to the Calcutta Museum, the restf it helped to fill the swamp on which the present towni. built. With the doings of Albuquerque and his expeditionwe are on somewhat safer ground, though the opinions ofthe Portuguese historians in regard to the Malay are opento serious question in the light of modern knowledge.An enthusiastic Englishman, Mr. John Crawfurd, a mem-ber of the East India Companys service, and one of thefirst Residents of Singapore, visited Malacca in 1821 andwrote : We cannot, as Europeans, but survey with pridethe spot on which stood the bridge by which Albuquerque,at the head of seven hundred Europeans, stormed wallsand intrenchments that were guarded by thirty thousandbarbarians. Unfortunately, it is more than probablethat the seven

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