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OLD MALACCA
THE CHINA MAIL,
AN HISTORIC AND CHARMING TROPICAL TOWN
a powerful Portuguese squadron from a mere fshing village into one of the for compelled the Dutchmen to with great ports of the world, whilst itą dew. It was 1040 before the Dutch own trade has remained more or less made a secoul attempt. In the mean- stationary, and to-day its claim to im Kime they had raided the Portuguese portance la based not on its facilities as frequently from Johore. In the year a port, but on its position as the ad- UNSPOILT BY COMMERUÄLISM named, the Governor-General of the ministrative headquarters, of the pro- Dutch East Indies, Antony Von vince of Malaces. This Engures ita No spot in the whole of British | Diemen, attacked Malacca by sea and prosperity, but gives it little prospect Malaya, perhaps in the whole of the by land, aided by the Jchore Malays, of any great expansion, and with this East Indies, can vie with Mclheen in and after a heroic resistance, during Malacca remains content. historie interest and charm, writes which its population of 20,000 was re- For my part I am glad this is so, Edward E. Long; C.B.F., în “Overseas.”duced to 300, captured it.
for it preserves the place unspoiled There is no place like it where the
The Dutch Occupation by the ingdern commercialiam. For ancient and modern is blended so de- For 150 years the Dutch held those who love the quietness and quaint- licately that each serves to enhance the Malacca. As a trading post it never ness of an oldtime town, Malacca is, a beauty of the other. Malaga town paid its way, but they were content to thing of joy. It is carious blending of to-day is the capital of the province keep out the Portuguese, and Malacca East and West such as you shall see in of that name, which is one of the most was a base for the other small stations few other places in the world, and no- flourishing sections of the British of the Dutch in Malaya, in Perak, where more perfectly. The old wea colony of the Straits Settlements, Selangor, and the Dindings. Several ther-stained buildings of Portuguese owing its prosperity to rubber, but the limes the place was attacked by the Don and Dutch Mynteer lie scattered Malacca of the past was far greater Malays. Then Napoleon made use of jamongst the ornate bouges of wealthy than this; it was the first settlement ke Dutch Fleet and colonies in the Chinese and modern European bunga- of the Malays on the mainland of what | druggle against England, and Malacca lows, whilst not für distant are the Dow British Malaya, who went town and fort were captured by a Bri-humble dwellings, bamboo and leaf- thither from Sumatra, and from there
thatched of the Malay.
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spread throughout the country, driving its Saki and Semeng inhabitants to the jungles and mountains, where they have remained ever since.
Melays had settled in the island of Singapore as early as 1360, possibly earlier, but seventeen years later they were attacked by the Javanese and an- nihilated. The few survivors fled. to Malacca, and the Malays. settled there already had, by the year. 14lā, estab- lished a kingdom of sufficient.import- ance to send envoys to China and to bé recognised by that nation The Chinese traded with the Malays and took such an interest in Malacca that we did, in the year 1-109, the Imperial Evoy, Chong Ho, bringing to the | Malayan Sultan an order from the Em- peror of China, and a silver seal, a cap, a girdle, and a long ribe. The order raised Malaces to the status of a cily, the land was termeď a king- dom, and from then onwards, until the coming of the Europeana, Malacca con- sidered itself under Chinese protec- Lium
But notwithstanding this, and the strong incentive to live at peace with all men and to profit considerably by.
the their rapidly-expanding trade, Malays of Malaca, preferred a state of fighting and intrigue, and the annals of the Sultans of those days show a long record of murder and sudden death. Thus Malacca was ready for the strong hand of a. newcomer, who came in the guise of the Portuguese.
For nearly a hundred years the Por- tuguese were unchallenged in their pos- session by any other European power. The Malays, driven out, established in Johore, in Pahang, and along the Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano and coast of Peral: and Selangor, and from famed beauty is confined in a Paris time to time, often with the assistance hospital suffering from a double fra of Sumatran Sultans, they harried there of the right shoulder, sustained in
a motoring mishap in Paris.. Portuguese, who, inspite of this, pro- ceeded with their work of eclenisation so thoroughly that eventually the colony possessed
governor's palace, 1 bishop's palace, substantial Govern- ment buildings, a charity, hospital, five churches within the town walls, and eight without. Hither came the famous missionary of the Roman Church-St.. Francois Xavier-to preach and to set forth on a mission to the further East, and hitherto his body was brought to rest for a time in the Chapel on the Hill of Our Lady of the Mount; then to be taken to Goo
The challenge to the Portuguese came from the Dutch. Sucessful in trading with the Malays who had set- tled in Johore, and having no wish to interfere with
their religion, Islami,
A hill, around which and on which rains of the old Portuguese and Dutch fortifications still remain, has on ite crest the roofless, Chapel of Our Lady of the Mount, afterwards known as, the Chapel of St. Paul. Therein is a tablet marking the resting place of the body of St. Francois Xavier; there also lie the graves of may a proud Por tuguese knight and stout Dutch burgh- er, the inscriptions on the massive stone slabs, 200 to 300 years old, often perfectly legible. And there I witness- ed, on a very special occasion, High Mass celebrated by a Portuguese Archbishop, which was attended by the many poor descendants in Malacca to day of those mighty captains who fought under Albuquerque, baaring their names and speaking a curiously ungrammatical Portuguese.
Quaint Dutch Houses
At the foot of this hill lies the town,' along by a small giver, two streets devoted to the houses of the wealthier members of the Chinese community Malacca has possessed from ancient times. They are long and narrow, and back out on to the sea, supported on piles and presenting a strange appear- ance. Between the hill and the sea, along a coastal road, are the Govern ment buildings and residences of the principal officials, chiefly picturesque old Dutch houses with spacious gardens, looking over to the sea close by, the small pier and the little verdure-clad island in the Ronds-from which Dutch batteries once stormed and silenced the forts of Malacca.
There is a pleasant green-carpeted square, with quaint Dutch houses round it, and on the slope of the bill the old Dutch Stadt House, where
orce the Dutch governors lived; now the Malacca Law. Courts. In the moreantile: quar- ter are few-very few-modern, cree- ish squadre and held in the name tions, and all around aro small hills, of William, Prince of Orange, the with Mount: Ophir, over 4,000 feet Dutch officials being continued in their high, towering in, the distance, pleasant ofices-from 1795 until 1818, when it walks and interesting villages, wherein was restored to the Dutch by the you may meet Malays of proud fearing Treaty of Vienna of a few years before, with traditions of 600 years behind But Malacca was not destined to re-them,
clad in bright sarong and main in the hands of the Dutch. They quieter baju, encounter families pro- were quite willing to exchange it for gresting to their destination in pic- British settlements in Sumatra and turesque bullock-carts, and then hur
sewhere and so a trusty between riedly give way to a motor car rush- Holland and England effected the ing past on the good hard "treated"! transfer, in 1824, and under this road to distant Seremban. And at sun- reaty the two countries agreed to act set, as you go off by launch to your together in the East in a friendly steamer, you will glide past the fishing spirit, which has ever been maintained fleet, putting out to sea, alive with and exists today,
epiour, as it put out under · Albuquer que, under Van Diemen, as it will put out, symbol of Malays and its people- in the years yet to come.
Soon after its casion to the British, war was fought with the Naning they obtained the aid of the Malays in Malays of the hinterland, who had be attacking Malacca. Early in 1906 some troublesome, but from that time Cornelius Matlief de Jonge and Steven atil now the history of Malacca has Vander Hagen, assisted by a fleet of been entirely uneventful; it has been native prahus, stormed the city from content to dwell on. its stirring
the sea, succeeded in-landing, and cap-memories of the past. It has seen tured some outposts, but the arrival of Singapore resuscitated and grow from
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