The Straits Settlements

Are trading centres on the Straits of Malacca.—They include Singapore, Penang, known as Prince of Wales' Island, with Province Wellesley. The Dindings, Malacca, Perak, and other native states near, are under British protection.

Total area about ten times the size of the Isle of Wight. Total Population about that of Liverpool, of whom more than three-fifths are Malays and Chinese.

Commerce, all "Free Trade" Ports.—The chief exports are tin, sugar, pepper, nutmegs, mace, sago, tapioca, rattans, gutta-percha, india-rubber, dye-stuffs, tobacco. Value of trade in 1859, £14,820,000; in 1884, £36,200,000.

The exhibits represent both the exports and the every-day life of the natives. Notice the collcction of Perak Butterflies, and the Edible Birds' Nests.