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MALAY SKETCHES
disturbances were
Blanja people, (war, they called it)
imminent.
The next day I was at the Raja Muda's village,
.and had a long talk with him. He also was for
war, but did not think the Malays would begin it.
He said no good would be done in the country, till
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the malcontents had been taught a lesson. Un-
as far as could be all the chiefs
fortunately, seen,
with very few exceptions, were in that category.
The people hardly count, they are passive and
recognise that they live to obey their leaders.
That night I reached Kuala Kangsar, and the
then important personage of the place, an old lady
who lived on the hill where now the Residency
informed me that she had been in
stands, living
daily fear of attack by the people of a neighbouring
called Kota Lama. The in Kuala
village shops
Kangsar were all closed, and everyone was waiting
for the bursting of the storm.
The latest excitement here was that a
notoriously
bad character named Raja Alang, living in a house
by the path which led from Kuala Kangsar to the
neighbouring district of Larut, saw a foreign Malay
man of
(a Patani) walking past with his wife and
two children. When the man got opposite Raja
Alang's house he raised his trousers to keep them
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