all on a handful of boiled rice; but they will only do this for one
they know, whom they regard as their Chief, and in whose sight they
would be ashamed to murmur at the severity of the work, or to give in
when all are sharing the strain in equal measure.

[Footnote 5: Kechek anak Malaka; bual anak Menangkabau; tipu
anak Rambau; bidaah anak Trengganu; pen-akut anak Singapura;
penjelok anak Kelantan; sombong anak Pahang.

Wheedlers are the men of Malacca; boasters the men of
Menangkabau; cheats the men of Rambau; liars the men of
Trengganu; cowards the men of Singapore; thieves the men of
Kelantan; and arrogant are the men of Pahang.]

[Footnote 6: Adan = A hand-rail by means of which Malay children
are taught to stand and walk.]

The natives of Trengganu are of a very different type. First and
foremost, they are men of peace. Their sole interest in life is the
trade or occupation which they ply, and they have none of that pride of
race and country, which is so marked in the Pahang Malay. All they ask
is to be allowed to make money, to study, or to earn a livelihood
unmolested; and they have none of that 'loyal passion' for their
intemperate Kings, which is such a curious feature in the character of
the people of Pahang, who have had to suffer many things at the hands of
their _rajas_. When Baginda Umar conquered Trengganu in 1837, the people
submitted to him without a struggle, and, if a stronger than he had
tried to wrest the country from him, the bulk of the people would most
certainly have acquiesced once more with equal calmness.

Study, trade, the skill of the artisan, 'and fruitful strifes and
rivalries of peace,' these are the things in which all the interests of
the Trengganu Malay are centred. From his earliest infancy he grows up
in an atmosphere of books, and money and trade, and manufactures, and
bargainings, and hagglings. He knows how to praise the goods he is
selling, and how to depreciate the wares he is buying, almost as soon as
he can speak; and the unblushing manner in which he will hold forth
concerning the antiquity of some article which he has made with his own
hands, and the entire absence of all _mauvaise honte_ which he displays
when detected in the fraud, have earned for him the reputation he
proverbially bears of being the best liar in the Peninsula. The Pahang
boy grows up amid talk of war and rumours of war, which makes him long
to be a man that he