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Updated: July 2, 2025
Had extensive terraces existed on the coast, it seems certain that some notice must have been taken of them. Yet in the mountains of central and northwestern Luzon, in districts remote from coast influences, are found some of the most remarkable fields of this type in Malaysia; terraces representing such an expenditure of labor that they argue for a long period of construction.
The conversation, which had pretty much covered the world, eventually turned to snakes. "That reminds me," remarked a constabulary officer who had spent many years in Malaysia, "of a queer thing that happened in a place where I was stationed once in the Straits Settlements. It was one of those deadly dull places only a handful of white women, no cinema, no race course, nothing.
Previous writers among them Ratzel and Graebner have sought to account for certain resemblances in culture, between Malaysia, Polynesia, and America, by historical connection.
I had once the pleasure of meeting a Dutch gentleman a plantation expert, who had been sent down the West Coast by a firm trading there, and also in the Malay Archipelago prospecting, at a heavy fee, to see whether it would pay the firm to open up plantations there better than in Malaysia.
If I recommend that he aim carefully at this dugong, it's because the animal is justly regarded as fine game, and I know Mr. Land doesn't despise a choice morsel." "Aha!" the Canadian put in. "This beast offers the added luxury of being good to eat?" "Yes, Mr. Land. Its flesh is actual red meat, highly prized, and set aside throughout Malaysia for the tables of aristocrats.
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