Rain falls there more than half the days in the year.

If the Chinese had it, they would make a garden of it.

It is better, even, than the land on that part of Sumatra where they produce spices and grains of all sorts.

The Malay Peninsula would be very wealthy, were it not split up into several kingdoms, that are always at war with each other.
"Singapore was a great place, once.

Seven hundred years ago it was the capital of the whole Malay kingdom; but it was taken, a hundred years afterwards, by the King of Java, and Malacca then became the Malay capital." "The affair does not seem very promising," Harry said, after repeating to Fairclough what he had heard from the Malay.