Mr Raffles Comes to Malacca
A few days after that, the news reached Malacca that the English were going to Java to fight. About two or three months after we heard that news, suddenly Mr Raffles came to Malacca with his wife, and with an English secretary, named Mr Merlin, and also a Malay secretary named Ibrahim, born of Tamil blood at Penang. Mr Raffles remained at Malacca, living at the village of Bandar Hilir, on the plantation of the son of the Captain China, named Baba Cheng Lan. He brought with him many beautiful things of European manufacture, such as many kinds of boxes, and pistols,
