Memories of Penang Hill

April 2011 WINDOW INTO HISTORY
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The gatehouse at Flagstaff Hill.
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THIS TEXT IS extracted by Ooi Kee Beng from Sir George Leith’s A Short Account of the Settlement, Produce and Commerce, of Prince of Wales Island in The Straits of Malacca in 1805.Leith (1775–1842) was the Governor of Prince of Wales Island from 1800 to 1803. Immediately after he took up this position, he successfully negotiated with the Sultan of Queddah (Kedah) for a strip of land on the peninsula to be added to the jurisdiction of the island. This estate...

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