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SINGAPORE IN MALAY ANNALS. IT 18 RECORDED THAT SANG NILA UTAMA. A DE8CENDENT OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. JOURNEYING FROM PA- LEMBANY TO THE ISLAND OF BETANY. WAS DRIVEN TO THE ISLAND OF SINGAPORE BY A STORM. ON COMING ASHORE WITH HIS FOL- LOWERS. HE SAW AN ANIMAL WHICH THE ANNALS DESCRIBED AS »VERY SWIFT AND BEAUTIFUL. ITS BODY BRIGHT RED. ITS HEAD JET BLACK. ITS BREAST WHITE. IN SIZE RATHER LARGER THAN A GOAT. ON BEING TOLD THAT IT WAS A LION. SANG SAID: IF AN ANIMAL HERE LOOKS SO SMART AND FIERCE, IT WOULD BE A OOD COUNTRY IN WHK;H TO FOUND A KINGDOM. HE NAMED THE NEW KINGDOM SINGAPURE (THE UON CITY). ll '
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KQ •u, - : r., V!rj rji. •I (A ABERDEEN, (UPPER LEFT), IS HONG KONG ' S MAIN FISHING VILLAGE AND HAS THE LIONS SHARE OF THE 65,000 FLOATING MEMBERS OF THE POPULATION LIVING ON 13,000 VESSELS IN COLONY WATERS. THERE ARE 20,000 PEOPLE LIV- ING ON 3,000 VESSELS IN ABERDEEN HARBOR. YAUMATI TYPHOON HARBOR HAS 8,000 PEOPLE ON 1,000 BOATS AND THE CAUSEWAY BAY TY- PHOON SHELTER HAS 2,000 PEOPLE ON 750 VES- SELS. MORE COLORFUL VIEWS OF TIGER BALM GAR- DENS (LEFT MIDDLE AND LOWER). THE ARCHI- TECTURE THROUGHOUT THE BRITISH COLONY OF HONG KONG VARIES. CLASSIC CHINESE AR- CHITECTURE (ABOVE) CAN BE SEEN INTERMI- GLED WITH MODERN HIGHRISE, VICTORIAN, A WALLED VILLAGE, AND SMALL SINGLE ROOM SHACKS. !« • «
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Page 76 text:
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ftwa . G. THE ISLAND, 85 MILES NORTH OF THE EQUATOR, IS 26 MILES FROM EAST TO WEST AND 14 MILES FROM NORTH TO SOUTH. THE ESTIMATED POPULATION AT THE END OF 1975 WAS APPROXI- MATELY 2J2 MILLION OF WHICH 76% WERE ETHNIC CHINESE, 15% ETHNIC MALAYS. 7% ETHNIC INDIANS AND THE REMAINDER OTHER NATIONALI- TIES. WITH THIS OVERCROWDING, CRAMPED APARTMENT COMPLEXES ARE COMMON PLACE (ABOVE). THE DIVERSITY OF ETHNIC GROUPS MEANS THAT IT IS A GASTRONOMIC PARADISE. HOWEVER NO PLACES ARE SACRED (ABOVE RIGHT). THE TIGER BALM GARDENS (MIDDLE AND LOWER RIGHT) ARE SIMILAR TO THE GAR- DE NS IN HONG KONG, BUT LARGER. 4 n ..: • . j d fltW3S wrt -it I :i i fj- ' i %y %tk i Utlf iiS ii,ja ' »■ ' • ' .! i ' te
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