Anderson, John

Mission to the east coast of Sumatra, in M. DCCC. XXIII, under the direction of the government of Prince of Wales island: including historical and descriptive sketches of the country, an account of the commerce, population, and the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and a visit to the Batta cannibal states in the interior.

Edinburgh, William Blackwood & London, T. Cadell, 1826. 8vo. xxiv + 424 pp. + 8 engraved plates + 4 folding engraved charts. Modern quarter green morocco, half-title leaf missing. Some occasional light marginal waterstaining and soiling. Pp. 1–190 contain the author’s diary of his mission inland and on the coast of Sumatra, from December 30, 1822 to April 5, 1823. He acted as agent to the governor of Pulau Penang for procuring engagements from native potentates, the sultans of Delly and Siack, and the Rajah of Langkat. Pp. 191–357 contain “History and description of the east coast of Sumatra, between Diamond Point and Siack”, followed by an Appendix containing details about manufactures and trade, etc. John Anderson (1795–1845) was at Penang from 1813 to 1830, employed first as ‘writer’, then deputy warehouse-keeper and Malay translator to government. He was promoted by stages to secretary to government and in 1827 was made a justice of the peace for Penang, Singapore and Malacca. His later publications, after he returned home in 1830, relating to British commerce in the Straits of Malacca, attracted considerable attention.

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