Travel to Malaysia: KL Take Two: Photo 4

Frank Swettenham, who played as large a role in these parts as any Englishman, wrote in his journal for 1875 that "Qualla Lumpor, the depot for all the mines in Klang, is perhaps the best built village, and has the most flourishing appearance of any in the Peninsula. The town is well laid out, with a market and a gambling booth, and is situated on the left bank of the Klang River. There are about 1,000 Chinese and 700 Malays resident in the town, and the authorities are a Captain China and a Toh Dagang.... Almost the whole of the present town of Qualla Lumpor has been built in the last year." (Journals 1874-1876, ed by P.L. Burns and C.D. Cowan, p.218; quoted by Gullick, p. 21.)

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