The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-16

OF justice to Immediately prove his kindly
sentiment to Britain by hanging on the
spot before the public gaze the murderer of
a British subject.
The paralyzed sultan could but gasp
amazement. A Chinese had been killed by
high of1cial-a daily occurrence not worth
lconslderation-but British subjects were
safe. Whose should STAY British subject
should be punished to the death. Blandly
and slowly the mysteries Of naturalized sub
lects were explained to the sultan, and he
learned, with British guns to punctuate the
point, that yellow John, the Inconvenience
husband. was Briton-a Briton natural
lied In Singapore some years before. He
stood checkmated. Two courses only were
open to him-one to hang his brother, the
murderer. there and then before the palace
gates, or else 20 sign a document calling
upon the British government to take his
state under protection, as in the case of
Perak aud Selangor. A few days were al
lowed him for reflection.
The Nadjis counseIed war, and for a time
things looked perilous, but at this moment
the civilized Mahara jah of Tohore, widely
| Travelled and learned in the ways of the
world, inuerposed his influence and a sulky
acquiesceuce was given to British entry and
occupation. IL was a case Of Hobson's
| choice. Immediately after the British flag
was hoisted enterprise poured in. Six promi-
nent and wealthy Australians arrived one
day In Selangor, and, after hopeless en-
deavor to recure native guides and coolies,
| manfully shouldered their ''swags" and
| with one hardy guide set out
for Pahang themselves. Marching
single file day by day through the dense
and swampy jungles; leeches swarning in
myriads. devouring them from head to
heel; mosquitoes feeding day and night;
| tigers and the fierce black panther bowling
| round their palm-leaf camp at night;
snakes, centipedes and scorpions making
every footstep dangerous. But the glitter
of gold overcame all terrors and hardships,
and the doughty pioneers reached their Ell
Dorado, the marvellous valley Of Raub
There they dug the gold from underneath
their very feet.
The valley OF Raub was purchased by
them for the sum Of 100000 cash, and the
| contract was signed by rajah who knew
nothing of the birthrighu he was selling for
a mess of pottage. The hardy colonials OBJ
| tanned and filled some twelve packing cases
with the soil, and, shipping them upon a
bamboo raft, themselves went down the
mighty Pahang river TO its mouth and took
trading scow to Singapore. There their
dirt assayed twelve ounces to the ton, and
the Pahang companies commenced to float
until a warning from the British govern.
ment, announcing official refusal to sanction
or recognize any concessions made by igno-
| rant native chiefs, put demper on rushing
adventurous seeking TO buy up huge gold
fields at microscopic rates from the untu-
| tored savage chiefs.
To obtain dray load of gold in Pahang
| would take but a few hours shoveling. To
bring that load to market would cost some
| fifty dray loads, and 80 things balance. The
| British authorities have surveyed and con-
structed a good portion of railroad to
Pahang, which will be completed in three
to four years. Meantime. within the state
itself roads have to be made, military po-
lice courts and barracks spread throughout
the land, and The people gradually and
surely made to understand that murder
means death, robbery imprisonment and
| fiogging, and that law and order will be
steadily enforced where lawIessness and
crime have fourished unchecked amid the
lust for gold.
At present inimical chiefs are being
quietly superseded by others who are long
| sighted enough to understand that the lion
has come to stay and dispute possession with
the panther, and so, wise in their genera
ton. aid and support the British admins
| tration.
| Village riots and local rebellions against
! the new and unwonted restraint upon the
personal villainy of the subject are sure to
break out from time to time. Last year the
| disturbances were sufficiently serious to call
|
police into Pahang to suppress the rioters.
| Order was restored for the time. but now
| again more serious riots have broken out
and will call for more vigor.
| San Franciscans, who are aware of the
| difficulty of maintaining law and order
among the highbinders Of Chinatown, will
appreciate the position of some three or
| four Europeans in an insulated tract of
country surrounded by some 5000 or TO-
900 Chinese mining coolies, the refuse of the
| piratical villages along the Canton river,
with nothing to look to for support but
| their own courage.
1t is surprising how little the world
knows of ITSELF Few men who spend
thousands of dollars for q chance sight of
big game in Africa and India are aware
that with a four weeks comfortable
steamer journey to Singapore they will be
enabled to comfortably and luxuriously
| visit the native states Of Perak and Selan-
gor and in the latter state especially, for
the expenditure OF IS or $40 obtain ele-
plant, tiger, deer and pig shooting almost
| from the verandas of the magistrates bun
galows in the different districts.
How many Californian sportsmen know
of the 'sladang," the great OK deer of the
peninsula, which averages eighteen to
| twenty hands high at the withers, and can
| be trailed up for the mere exertion of ten to
fifteen miles walking through the jungles
with Malay guide as indicator of signs
and hunters lore2 The wonders and mar
wells Of the Malay peninsula have yet TO
meet with treatment from the hands of
some person who can combine withithe skill
full pen Of the writer the energy and quail
cations Of the explorer and traveller. Miss
| Bird has given us some charming notes in
her Golden Chersonese," while another
lady writer has promptly and truthfully re-
moved the gliding In her "Chersonese With
the Gliding off," "Sarong and Kris" and
all other such works, deal only with the
globe trotter's superficial and generally in.
correct impressions Of places and peoples.
| Opportunity awaits the man who dares to
penetrate the wild interior and give graphic
| pictures of the weird sights and scenes OF
the savage jupgles of Malaysia.
VERY MUCH MARRIED.