Sejarah Melayu or Malay Annals . Translated by C. C. Brown. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1970. xxxv, 273 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Appendix, Index. $10.50.
Sejarah Melayu or Malay Annals . Translated by C. C. Brown. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1970. xxxv, 273 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Appendix, Index. $10.50.
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Sejarah Melayu 或马来年鉴。
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10.2307/2052169
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1972
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C. C. Brown
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J. Echols;C. C. Brown
早在1859年，R. H.梅杰在《早期南极大陆之旅》一书的序言中指出，“在哈克卢伊特附近的达林普尔，这个国家因其商业繁荣而负债最多。“近年来，只有V.T.教授哈洛承认达林普尔的想法具有商业意义。弗莱的书不是，因为已故的R。A.克莱顿的前言会让我们相信，这是一本真实的意义上的传记。关于达林普尔生平的叙述被压缩成几句简短的评论，人物分析是最基本的一种。这本书所做的是提供了达林普尔参与四项重大事业的记录，即他试图在当时被称为东印度群岛的地方建立一个永久的英国殖民地;他对南方大陆概念的倡导，使他被皇家学会提名为1768年南太平洋探险队的指挥官，在海军部的坚持下，这一决定几乎立即被撤销;他试图进一步发现西北航道，使东印度公司和哈德逊湾公司能够联合收割机在北美和东亚的业务结合起来;以及他担任海军水文测量员的任期，在此期间，英国海图成为所有国家海图制作者的典范。除了最后一项外，达林普尔在所有这些尝试中都是失败的，但其中两项至少证明了他自己的信念，即错误的道路可能会导致真理，因为尽管他的地理论点被证明是站不住脚的，但它们确实激发了库克和温哥华的航行，这两次航行首次揭示了太平洋的全部范围。这本杂志的读者会对这本书感兴趣，主要是因为它对18世纪后半叶东南亚事件的揭示。弗莱为达林普尔试图在位于婆罗洲和巴拉望之间的战略要地巴兰班岸岛建立一个英国贸易站提供了细致的文件。经过十年的宣传、策划和宣传，
stature was recognized as early as 1859 by R. H. Major who, in his introduction to Early Voyages to Terra Australis, observed that it was to Dalrymple "next to Hakluyt, this Country is the most largely indebted for its commercial prosperity." In recent years only Professor V. T. Harlow has acknowledged the commercial significance of Dalrymple's ideas. Fry's book is not, as the late R. A. Skelton's foreword would have us believe, a biography in any real sense. The narrative of Dalrymple's life is compressed into a few brief remarks and character analysis is of the most elementary kind. What the volume does do is furnish accounts of Dalrymple's involvement in four enterprises of considerable moment, namely his attempts to establish a permanent British settlement in what was then known as the East Indian Archipelago; his advocacy of the notion of a Southern Continent which led to his nomination by the Royal Society as commander of its 1768 expedition to the South Pacific, a decision which was almost immediately rescinded at the insistence of the Admiralty; his attempt to further the discovery of a Northwest Passage that would enable the East India and Hudson's Bay Companies to combine their operations in North America and East Asia; and his tenure of the post of Hydrographer to the Navy, during which time British nautical charts became exemplars for the chart makers of all nations. In all except the last of these enterprises Dalrymple was unsuccessful, but two of them at least justified his own belief that the path of error may yet lead to truth, for although his geographical theses proved untenable, they did motivate the voyages of Cook and Vancouver that first revealed the full extent of the Pacific Ocean. Readers of this particular Journal will be interested in this volume primarily for the light it throws on events in Southeast Asia during the second half of the eighteenth century. Fry has provided meticulous documentation for Dalrymple's attempt to establish a British trading post on the Island of Balambangan, strategically situated between Borneo and Palawan. After a decade of propagandizing, planning and argu989