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Identifier: sailorslifeunder01kepp (find matches)
Title: A map of Singapore island from A Sailor's Life under Four Sovereigns (1899). "Walter & Boutall sc[ulptoris]." ("engraver") appears at the bottom right corner of the map.
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Keppel, Henry, Sir, 1809–1904.
Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Navy.
Publisher: London: Macmillan and Co., Limited; New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries.
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN.

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About This Book: Henry Keppel (1899) A Sailor's Life under Four Sovereigns, 1, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co.; The Macmillan Company, p. 286 OCLC: 523727. 3 vols.
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Singapore, Mar. 3. 1843. Sunset, anchored in Singapore Roads. Sir Stamford Raffles landed here on January 29, 1819. Near the present esplanade he hoisted the [...]
Text Appearing After Image (p. 287):
[...] Union Jack next day, and concluded a preliminary arrangement with the Sultan of Johore and the Tumongong of Singapore; and on February 5, 1819, a definite treaty was signed by Raffles and the two chiefs named, by which, in return for an annual payment of 5000 dollars to the former, and 3000 dollars to the latter, those princes ceded the settlement of Singapore to the English, and pledged themselves to grant no treaty or settlement to any other power, European or American. Mar. 5. On board to muster. Read prayers. Vixen arrived, not two months from England. Mar. 6. I had now been some days making myself acquainted with the persons chiefly concerned in this most interesting colony. The greatest admitted drawback was the want of protection to trade from piracy. I felt there was a grand field open, if I could only feel sure that I should be allowed to remain long enough. There was a large community of interested merchants, as well as Government officials, but we were not without powerful natives in our midst, whose kindly feeling for piracy was well known.

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  • booksubject:Great_Britain__Royal_Navy
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