“With the rising sun, my heart warmed. As we approached Port Dickson I was aglow with excitement. There before me was the sea, pearl-coloured and calm till it lost itself in the horizon.”
So wrote the British spy Bruce Lockhart in his 1936 memoir Return to Malaya, in which he retraced his controversial footsteps in Negri Sembilan from 25 years prior.
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