Their food, too, is better and their work less rough than that of the people at large.
"The sons and daughters of the chiefs naturally intermarry, and the result is that in most cases you will find the upper classes taller, better formed, lighter in color, and of greater intelligence than the rest of the people.

This would be specially the case in a trading people like the Malays; their ships would bring over girls purchased in India, just as the ruling classes in Turkey used to obtain their wives from Circassia; and this, no doubt, has helped to modify the original Malay type." "Thank you, Doctor; I think I shall like the Malays now I know something about them.

Is it true that they are so treacherous ?" "I don't know, Parkhurst; doubtless they are treacherous in their wars; that is to say that they consider any means fair to deceive an enemy; but I do not think that they are so, beyond that.

The Dutch have never had any very great difficulty with them, nor have we in the portion of the peninsula where we have established our rule.

Of course, I know little about them myself, as I have only been out here a few months; but I am told that as traders they can be trusted, and that the word of a Malay chief can be taken with absolute confidence.