2 A scene showing tin mine workers having their meal at their ‘kongsi’ (place where they lived and had their meals)
THEY braved 10 to 15 days of sailing in search of a new life in a foreign land.
Those who survived the journey had to undergo quarantine on an island off Singapore for a few days before getting deployed to work in the tin mines in Perak.
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