Excerpt from A Voyage to China, Vol. 2 of 2: Including a Visit to the Bombay Presidency; The Mahratta Country; The Cave Temples of Western India, Singapore, the Straits of Malacca and Sunda, and the Cape of Good Hope The Hastings, 74, flagship of Admiral Sir F. Collier, in tow of the Fury, steamer, passed us within a few miles, bound to Penang. We are now approaching the town of Malacca, which appears in the distance, and at noon came to an anchor, about three miles from the Shore. Malacca, once the capital of the Malay peninsula, belonged first to the Portuguese, then to the Dutch, who ceded it, in 1824, to the English, in ex change for Sumatra. It has greatly fallen from its ancient Splendour, and forms, with Penang and Singapore, the Straits Settle ments, under the government of the East India Company. They are garrisoned by troops from the Madras Presidency, to which they are annexed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.