It is not too much to say that within the peninsula of malaya, the Johore Archipelago, and the island of Borneo, each of these types, and every intermediate form as well, is to be found.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
The peninsula of the Dekkan might then be conjectured to have been nearly or wholly separated from the central part of Hindustan, and confined to the range of mountains along the eastern coast; the insect-fauna of which is as yet almost unknown, but will probably be found to have more resemblance to that of Ceylon than to the insects of northern and western India-just as the insect-fauna of malaya appears more to resemble the similar productions of Australasia than those of the more northern continent.
"Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon"
J. Emerson Tennent
There was an abundance of boats too, and what strongly resembled a stockade; but what most took up the attention of all on board were a couple of long, low, well-made vessels, each displaying a curious figure-head bearing a faint resemblance to some fabulous monster; and in these armed boats both the soldiers and sailors of the little expedition were quite right in believing that they saw nothing more nor less than the much-talked-of vessels of the kris-bearing pirates of malaya, the well-known, much-dreaded prahus.
"Middy and Ensign"
G. Manville Fenn