The rice field, the coconut palm and the river provide the Malay with an easy living, supplemented in the past by the proceeds of occasional piracy. He was not likely to be industrious so long as his property was liable to be seized at any moment by his rulers or their deputies. The Malay, as we find him all over the East India Islands, will hunt, fish, sail a boat or fight with considerable energy and skill, but he takes ordinary life in an easy fashion. He has no desire for the business of money-making and prefers to live in his simple fashion in his own homestead or _kampong_. Let us look at some of these native houses. They are 28 all raised above the ground on piles, and usually have a kind of verandah on one side; the interior is dark, as the native 29 is not fond of windows. We notice the bamboo and the coconut palm near every house and shall probably come on the stream not very far away. This is the real Malaya: the aspect of the towns is very different. Here we find streets of houses and shops, but these are largely given up to the natives of India or China, as we may guess from the signboards in the picture before us. 30 Here, on the other hand, we see the typical Malay, in his 31 national costume, the bright coloured _sarong_ or petticoat which is worn both by men and women, with a light jacket of 32 some kind to complete the dress. The Malays are Mohammedans, though not perhaps of a very rigid type. Here we see the new 33 mosque at Kuala Lumpur, fit to stand side by side with a palace; but the simple thatched or tiled buildings which we find 34 everywhere in the villages seem to agree better with our pictures of ordinary Malay life.