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This state occupies the sout of about 9,000 square miles. T under the protection of the Brit The present Sultan, Ibrahim, Sultan Abubakar, in 1895, be country has made great progres attracted a good deal of Europe

The capital is the town of Johore Lâma, or old Johore, situated a few miles up the wi flourishing little place on the 1 lying about 14 miles to the n some 20,000 inhabitants, mostly Istana, court and police stati and a mosque. A steam sav plentiful supply of water, by m distant, has been provided sin meet the requirements of the 1 1890 as far as Parit Jawa, a dist

The population of the state than of Malays. The exact fig 200,000, viz., Malays, 35,000, CE found within 15 miles of the cultivators of gambier and pep the extreme southern end of th

European pioneers have, in on a large scale, sago, tobacc different districts-Batu Pahat but it is uncertain how many of

At the present time the p gambier, pepper, and sago, an For almost all such produce Sin

The only mineral in which but is found almost everywhere gold in one or two spots. A mining is actually carried on, u now politically separated from formerly a dependency of the k

Coaches and steam-launche find easy access to all other por Bharu and Singapore, and a ra across the latter island, the Legislative Council in 1899.

Sovereign Ruler-His Hig Johore, K.C.M.G., Sovereig and the Most Honourable Private Secretaries-Inchi

Aide-de-Camp-Captain D