"Malaysia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... are important articles of domestic commerce in Malaysia, as it is estimated that four-fifths of the total population use them for sleeping purposes. In all places except where palms, like the buri or sedges occur, they yield the most suitable and most easily prepared mat material. Generally the whole leaf is utilized after ...
— Philippine Mats - Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 • Hugo H. Miller
... where their stormy relations with natives, Chinese from the mainland and Japanese finally resulted in their expulsion in 1662. Since then the Dutch have contented themselves with a few trading factories chiefly at Canton and with their possessions in Malaysia, so that they have been less aggressive in China than ...
— An Inevitable Awakening • ARTHUR JUDSON BROWN |
