Treaty of Perak
Engagement entered into at Pangkor Island by the Headmen of Chinese Secret Societies from Perak (Draft) 20 January 1874 Tuesday A This photograph is tagged as 2001/0025983W by Arkib Negara. The photograph is tagged as GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 3/11 by Cambridge University Library. view looking along a street in Kĕlian Bahru 新吉輦 (present-day Kamunting) lined with the premises of Chinese shopkeepers, and with an The elephant story of Larut has many versions. The following version was recounted by Wilkinson and Winstedt (1934) in The History of Perak : . . . at a later date and elephant that was being used by the miners escaped into the Kamunting jungles and when recaptured was found to be covered with mud rich in tin. The prospecting done by this elephant led to a rush to Kamunting - to the “new mines," or Kĕlian Baharu as the place came to be called (see p. 78). elephant in the foreground (circa 1890?) by August E. Kaulfuß . Kĕlian (كليان...