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unusual facts about John Crawfurd



Burney Treaty

This followed Dr. John Crawfurd's 1822 mission to the court of King Rama II, the principle objective of which was to determine Siam's position on the Malay states.

Hikayat Abdullah

Most of the work also contains his personal observations of the personalities of his time, the officials of the British East India Company like Sir Stamford Raffles, Colonel Farquhar and John Crawfurd, Sultan Hussein Shah of Johor Sultanate, European and American missionaries and traders, and the Chinese merchants of the early Singapore days.


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