The Malay People.

The Malays are a good lot. Small, very neat in their movements, and most friendly and polite, though in no way servile. Their sense of honour is very akin to our own, and things that amuse us amuse them too. They are in no way an oppressed race, and I really think our coming here has benefited them greatly. British colonial policy as portrayed here is very good—I am not flag-flapping or being diehard, but quite frankly there is not any of the oppression which any of our young socialists would loudly declaim. The Malays get a better deal from us, I should say, than they did under their own chiefs—while the way the Chinese come here in hordes clearly indicates that they are happy under British rule. Actually if anything the Malays are too well treated—they are permitted to lean on us, and if we ever got out, the Chinese would overrun them. I suppose you may consider me as [unclear: having] stumbled into the last ditch of reaction, but I wish you could see for yourself. Of course there are fools amongst our race who treat the Asiatics like mud—but they would get into trouble if they used physical violence to them.