BELFIELD, H. Conway.

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Handbook of the Federated Malay States. Third edition, significantly revising and updating the second of 1904 and adding an index. This informative guide, written by the first commissioner of lands and mines in the Federated Malay States, went through three editions in just four years.With his legal and linguistic expertise, Sir Henry Conway Belfield (1855-1923) served as resident in three of the Malay states between 1901 and 1912, before being appointed governor of the East Africa Protectorate.

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