Straits Settlements, Malay Peninsula

Area, 659 square miles. Population (1891), 92,170. 3. A seaport, capital of the territory of Malacca, situated on the Strait of Malacca in lat. 2° 12′ N., long. 102° 16′ E. It was formerly under Portuguese and later under Dutch rule. Pop., estimated, 16,557. Malacca, Strait of. A sea pa age separating Sumatra from the Malay Peninsula, and connecting the China Sea with the Indian Ocean. Width, 30-200 miles. Malachi (mal'a-ki). [Heb., 'my me enger,'or Malcontent, The neo, Celebes, Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores, Sand a i wood Island, Timor, and the Moluccas. The Philippines are often included, and sometimes Papua, the And a man Islands, and the Nicobar Islands. The inhabitants are chiefly of Malay or Papuan race. With the exception of the northern face of Borneo, almost the entire region is under Dutch domination. The eastern half of Timor is a Fortuguese government. See the respective names. Malay Peninsula, or Malacca (ma-laka). A peninsula at the southern extremity of of Asia, connected with the rest of Further India by the Isthmus of Kra, and terminating in Cape Romania. It lies between the Gulf of Siam and the China Sea on the east and the Bay of Bengal and the Strait of Malacca on the west; is traversed by a mountain-range; and is divided politically into Siamese po e ions, British po e ions (Straits Settlements), and Malay states (Perak, Johor, etc., in alliance with Great Britain). The chief races are Malays, Siamese, Chinese, and Negritos. Area, estimated, 70,000 square miles. Population, estimated, 650,000. Malay-Polynesian (mā-lā'pol-i-nē'sian). A family of languages occupying most of the islands of the Pacific, from Madagascar to Easter Island (not, however, Australia and Tasmania, nor the central parts of Borneo and New Guinea, and of some other of the large islands), together with the Malay Peninsula. Its principal branches are the Malayan, of the peninsula and the islands nearest it, and the Polynesian, of the great ma of scattered islands (including Madagascar and New Zealand); to these is added by many the Me lanes i an, of the Fiji Archipelago and its vicinity, which others regard as a separate family. The languages are of extreme simplicity in regard both to phonetic and to grammatical structure. Malays (mā-lāz'). [E. Malay , F. Malais , G. Malaje , Ru . Malai , etc., Malay Orang Malāyu , Malay man.] The natives of Malacca or the Malay Peninsula, or of the adjacent islands. Malbone (mal-bōn'), Edward G. Born at Newport, R. I., Aug., 1777: died at Savannah, Ga., May 7, 1807. An American portrait-painter. Malbrough (mäl-brök'), or Malbrook (malbrük'). A celebrated French song, commencing "Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre." The authors of words and music are not certainly known, but it probably dates from about 1709. Marie Antoinette took a fancy to it in 1781, and it became popular throughout France, after which Beau march a is introduced it in "Le mariage de Figaro" in 1784, and Beethoven repeated it in his "Battle Symphony" (1813), as the symbol of the French army. The air is that to which "We won't go home till morning" is sung. Grove. Malchin (mäl-chen'). A town in MecklenburgSchwerin, Germany, situated on the Peene 57 by of Schwerin. Population (1890), 7,298.