cultivate whichever produce promises the most profitable
result. Another proof of satisfactory planting by
free labour is that, in the province of Prdanger, in
which many of the settlers from the time of the British
occupation hold land and work it in their own way,
most splendid results have likewise been obtained, the
yield of coffee having increased there eight-fold between
1830 and 1857.
CHAPTER X.
X in g o r S ia m — J o h o r e a n d t h e M a h a r a j a h 's P l a n t a t io n s— C h in a
— H o n g - K o n g a n d t h e P e a k— C h in e s e R e p a s t— C a n t o n— A
C h in e s e F a m il y— E x p o s in g I n p a n t s— H o s p it a l s f o r t h e S ic k
a n d t h e D e a d — C o n f u c ia n ism , B u d d h i s m , a n d T a o u ism —
T e m p l e s— L i f e o n L a n d a n d o n W a t e r— V o y a g e to J a p a n .
T h e steamer which had brought me from Samarang
now took me back to Singapore, where I arrived just
in time to witness the official landing and reception
given to the young King of Siam, who had arrived
here in his steam yacht. A good deal of fuss was
made about him: the usual scarlet cloth on landing,
the whole garrison turned out to present arms, officers