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*====Fiction====**[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023257854 ''The Adventures of John Smith in Malaya, 1600-1605''] by A Hale 1909. Archive.org. This book was classified as a novel in a review when issued, but it was stated “In the Malayan part of the book…[there] seems to be first hand knowledge of the legends, custom and intimate life of the Malayans”, and it was “written… with… learning”<ref>[http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/10th-july-1909/28/novels ''The Spectator'' Archive: 10 July 1909, page 28]</ref>**''The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham'' [https://archive.org/details/completeshorts01maug Volume I] Archive.org Lending Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.460655 Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.553314 Volume III]. Archive.org. The Volume III Preface indicates some of the stories are set in Malaya "written long before the Second World War"; there may be other Malayan stories in other volumes. (See External links, above.) [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Short+Stories%29+AND+creator%3A%28Somerset+Maugham%29&sort=-date Other ''Short Stories'' editions] mainly from the Archive.org Lending Library. [https://archive.org/details/fareasterntales00maug ''Far Eastern Tales''] Archive.org Lending Library. The short stories appear to have been written mainly in the 1920s-1930s.**[https://archive.org/details/gunrunners00fordiala ''The Gun-Runners''] by W. Dingwall Fordyce c 1900 Archive.org. An adventure story for younger readers.*:[https://archive.org/details/jewelledlizard00fordiala ''The Jewelled Lizard''] by W. Dingwall Fordyce c 1908 Archive.org. An adventure story for younger readers, with a Sumatra setting.*:Dingwall Fordyce also wrote "The Adventures of Babi. A pet mongoose in Sumatra", a chapter in ''Wide World Magazine'', 1911, and ''Our Secret Society'' c 1910. However, it is unknown if the setting for the latter is also Malaysia/Indonesia.**[https://archive.org/details/blackparrottaleo00herv/page/n7 ''The Black Parrot: a Tale of the Golden Chersonese''] by Harry Hervey 1923 Archive.org. Golden Chersonese (Khersonese) meaning the Golden Peninsula, was the name used for the Malay Peninsula in classical antiquity.
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:[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/244576-the-origins-of-british-borneo ''The Origins of British Borneo''] by Leigh R. Wright 1970. FamilySearch Digital Library. Requires signing in to FamilySearch to view the text.
*[https://archive.org/details/netherlandseasti00unit/page/n7 ''Netherlands East Indies and British Malaya: a Commercial and Industrial Handbook''] by John A Fowler [USA] Trade Commissioner 1923 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/tidemarksbeingso00toml ''Tide Marks, Being Some Records of a Journey to the Beaches of the Moluccas and the Forest of Malaya in 1923''] by H. M. Tomlinson 1924 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/Malaypoisonscha00Giml ''Malay Poisons and Charm Cures''] by John D Gimlette, Residency Surgeon of Kelantan, 2nd revised edition 1923, first edition 1915. Archive.org.
*''The Empire at War'' edited for the Royal Colonial Institute by Sir Charles Lucas, in five volumes, with a [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1003532 catalogue contents description]. ([http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022549242.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-1107.9974%2C-93.2973%2C3908.9948%2C2833.5945 Volume 1] British Library Digital file) Volume 5, 1926, covers WW1 The Mediterranean colonies ; Egypt and Palestine ; Aden ; India ; Ceylon ; Malaya ; China. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022554216.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=3&z=-47.2741%2C0%2C3640.5482%2C2639 Volume 5], British Library Digital file, [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022554216.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=7&z=-47.2741%2C0%2C3640.5482%2C2639 Contents]. Also available as a pdf download from the Digital Library of India [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/284274 Vol-vth], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284274 Archive.org version].
*[https://archive.org/details/aab3248.0001.001.umich.edu ''An English-Malay Dictionary''] by Rev. W G Shellabear 1916 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/b21505019 ''Hilda's "Where is it?" of recipes : containing, amongst other practical and tried recipes, many old Cape, Indian, and Malay dishes and preserves: also directions for polishing furniture, cleaning silk, etc. and a collection of home remedies in case of sickness''] by Hildagonda J Duckitt 1908 edition Archive.org. First published 1891. The author lived at the Cape of Good Hope.
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