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MALCOLM 91 MALET yellowish. In various respects they bear paper, card and tassel, last and boot- a close resemblance to the Mongolians tree, leather factories, etc. Pop (1910) of Eastern Asia, but differ from them 44,404; (1920) 49,103. radically in language, all their dialects -m- a t ■nrTTT? tot a >ttw« i. • ,. - - belonging to a distinct Malayo-Polyne- ,J^f^?l^f .^n^f ^^1' ^t ^>'^^°^ ^^ sian family which is widely distributed 2?.l%'|lfn^ ^.^^°"|) '"^ 2*^ J"1^^° ^^«an, throughout the Indian and Pacific oceans, f.^^'f f^ "^^^f ^^^"^ .t^c b. E coast of Of late years the lessons taught them by S1jo^?c'?'/J'/r-^o°J.^j^^s, W. of Ceylon; European naval vessels have forced the !?*; ?«' F .^^^ ^ ^-^.^T' u^M^n^n'l? Malays to desist from piracy, their old I^ ^^ E. pop., estimated, about 50,000. lawless, roving habits being largely aban- ^^^^ ^^® dnnded mto groups, separated doned for the more settled occupations ?^ Jiarrow channels, which form safe of trade and agriculture, though the old harbors for small vessels. They are sel- spirit occasionally shows itself in out- ^"^ X^^i^^d by Europeans, the climate breaks of murderous frenzy, known as ^^^ intensely hot and unhealthy. Prod- "running amuck." Intellectually they ^^^^' ^^^^^> ^^^^> and poultry. The is- seem at a low level, and have never ^^^J^ It^^ on ^ considerable trade with developed a native literature, such civi- ff '^^ f^^^> ^^^ also with Hindustan and lization as they possess being due to Sumatra. The principal island is Mali. Arab and Hindu influence. Under these " '^ *^^ residence of the Sultan, who incitements they have developed consid- P^^^ ^^ ^I^^^^^l *^^^"*^ *« ^^^ ^"t^sh erable poetic and dramatic literature, government at Ceylon, and historical and other prose writings. MALDONADO, naval station of Uru- MALCOLM, the name of various SW, on the Plata estuary, 60 miles E. Scotch rulers, as follows: Malcolm I., ^L^?"" "^'"^^^ ^f-^ fortifications, with King of Scotland; reigned from 943 to fJl^e 'ulre' Pon ^Ifdo^"*""^'^ '""^ 954. Malcolm II. succeeded Kenneth II. ^^^^^ square. Pop. 5,000. ^ in 1005. In his reign Lothian and Strath- MALESHEBBES, CHBETIEN GXJIL- clyde became parts of the Scottish king- LAUME DE LAMOIGNON" DE (mal- dom. He was assassinated at Glams in zarb'), a French statesman; born in 1034. He was the last direct male de- Paris, France, Dec. 6. 1721. He suc- scendant of Kenneth MacAlpine. Mal- ceeded his father as president of the COLM III., sumamed Canmore (Great Court of Aids, besides which he had the Head); born about 1024. After the superintendence of the press. His faith- murder of his father, Duncan, by Mac- ful service and adherence to Louis XVI. beth, he sought aid from Siward of excited the jealousy of the French rul- Northumbria, and his cause was also ers, and caused his destruction. Almost espoused by Edward the Confessor. On his whole family were extirpated by the the defeat and death of Macbeth he was merciless proscription of his persecutors, crowned at Scone in 1058. In 1068 he Malesherbes was beheaded in Paris, Aprif granted asylum to Edgar Atheling, his 22, 1794, and bore his sufferings with a mother, and two sisters (one of whom, spirit worthy of his virtuous and hon- Margaret, he maiTied in 1070), with a orable life. He was admitted to the number of Saxon exiles. His reign, Academy of Sciences in 1750. later to the which was mostly taken up with wars Academy of Inscription, and in 1775 to with England, had nevertheless an im- the French Academy. He left several portant bearing on the civilization and works on topics of the time, and on ag- consolidation of Scotland. Malcolm IV. rieulture and natural history, (the Maiden) succeeded his grandfather, iM-ATxim -rTrrtmc j j. i., David I., in 1153. He surrendered qA^Ji^Ju^^^^-^' pseudonyni of Mary Northumberland and Cumberland to ^^t. Leger Harrison, an English novelist, Henry II. in 1157. Died in Jedburgh in youngest daughter of Charles Kmgsley; 1165, at the age of 24. oorn in Eversley gectory, Hampshire, , * ^„ . ,,.^j, England, m 1852. She married William MALDEN, a city in Middlesex co., Harrison, rector of Clovelly, North De- Mass.; on the Maiden river and on the von. England (died in 1897). Her novels Boston and Maine railroad; 5 miles N. of include: "Colonel Enderby's Wife" Boston. It contains Converse Memorial (1885); "A Counsel of Perfection" Hall, Art Gallery and Library, hospital, (1888) ; "Little Peter" (1887) ; "Mrs. electric light plant, waterworks, daily and Lorimer" (1882); "The Wages of Sin" weekly newspapers, and National banks. (1891); "The CarissJma" (1896)- "Sir The city is the trade center for surround- Richard Calmady" (1901); "The Far ing towns. It has about 300 manufactur- Horizon" (1906); "The Score" (1909); ing establishments, including one of the "The Golden Galleon" (1910); "Adrian largest boot, shoe, and rubber works in Savage" (1911); "Damaris" (1916); the United States, and sand and emery "Deadham Hand" U919).