The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-28

white women. These are the figures of
the last census. The result is the
Eurasians or the offspring of European
fathers and Asiatic mothers The name
is compounded from Europe and Asia
These people dress in European clothes
and they despise the Asiatics. 1t is easy
to tell them, however, by their features
and the European residents despise them
Singapore is now the property of England.
1t has governor sent out by the Queen
and it is practically free trade colony
The difference between 1t and the native
Asiatic states is seen in magnificent roads,
fine buildings, gas, street railroads and all
the civilized Accomplishments. ComIort
goes with the white man. Ignorance and
and barbarism, and non-improvement OF
every kind seem to be associated with the
yellow and the black. England IS slowly,
but surely, swallowing up these countries
of southern Asia She has the lions share
already and she is adding to her possessions
every year. There is no dourt but that the
change is good for the people and wherever
you find an English protectorate you ma
good courts, safety of property and he
public improvements OF all kinds ana
good school system.
England has already strong hold upon
the Malay peninsula, but among the tribes
of Malacca, which are not subject to her, IS
that of Johore.
JoHORE Is BIGGER THAN MASSACHUSETTS,
and it is governed by a sultan, who has alb
lutte power and who is one of the few indie
pendent Malay raiahs still living. l made
an excursion to Johore last week; visited
the capital, and there met this most noted
Malay ruler. Leaving Singapore at sun
rise. our carriage was driven by Malay
cOachman, and we had a Whlskered,
bare-footed, East Indian III red gown ana
turban as a guide. We drove for miles on
a road as level as the floor and as well kept
as race track through plantations OF CO.
coanuts and coffee. We first passed great
estates with beautiful grounds and wide
drives and then on out into the jungle.
The green cocOanutS hung by the bushels
in great punches from the tops Of tall palm
trees, each of which was from nifty to lOO
feet high and with trunk from SIX to
twelve inches in diameter The bark was
grayiSh-White and there were no leaves
until the very top, upon which the cocoa
nuts grew Some of these groves had
thousands of trees and they all looked as
though they were drunken on their own
milk They leaned in every direction and
the tops of some seemed to embrace those
of others in maudlin iollity. The coffee es-
tates consisted of green bushes about eight
| feet high with many branches, and the cot
fee grows close to the branch and the yell
| low fruit is the size of small damson plums:
| each plum contains two seeds, surrounded
| by pulp and these seeds are the coffee
grains They are cultivated and the es-
tates showed that they had been but lately
| ploUghed.
This road across the island of Singapore
was lined with Jungle which was at times
so thick that YOU could not see more than
two feet beyond the roadway and when 1t
| is remembered that about
THREE HUNDRED PEOPLE ARE KILLED EVERY
YEAR HERE
by tigers. and that the lower part Of the
Malay peninsula is the home of the wild
beast. it will be seen that the possibilities
were both numerous and unpleasant. We
passed through a number of Malay Chinese
| villages and we saw many blackskinned
natives of Java with nothing but breech-
clOuts upon them working upon the road
way Now and then we would meet cart
drawn by heavy Indian bullockS with great
humps of fat six inches high above their
shoulders and with their black skinned
driver in a turban sitting or standing upon
the heavy cart tongue. These bullocks
push the cart along with the front OF their
shoulders Their yokes do not come around
the neck as do those of our oxen and they
get over the ground three times as fast.
| They are the beasts Of burden of this part
| of the world. They do all the cartlng ana
hauling and they are among the most pic
turesque sights of this picturesque country.
Their drivers are straight, lean, wirey men,
who scowl at you as you pass and who,
with all their black skins, have features as
regular as the best you will IND IN your
city l snapped my camera upon one OF
them as he passed and the black-skinned
driver swore at me in Hindostanee as
did So
Half way across the island our driver
stopped and changed the horses of our car
riage for "a relay which had been sent on
ahead. Then the Malay Jehu whipped up
and we rode on through more villages and
more Jungle until we came to the straits OF
Singapore, on the opposite side Of which
was the main land and JohOre A Chinese
boat carried us across these and we were
! landed on the wharf Of