We next touched at Singapore, which was founded by a man of very similar character and talents to Sir James Brooke.  That man was Sir Stamford Raffles, whose life is well worthy of attentive study.  When, in 1819, the English took possession of the island at the end of the Malay peninsula, on which Singapore now stands, it contained but a few huts, the remnants of an old city, once the capital of the Malayan kingdom, and was then the resort of all the pirates who swarmed in the neighbouring seas.  It is now a free port, resorted to by ships of all nations.  It is the head-quarters of many wealthy mercantile houses, whose managers live in handsome houses facing the bay, while its working population is made up of Arabs, Malays, Chinese, and, indeed, by people from all parts of the East.  Singapore is another example of what the talent and energy of one man can effect.