p. 129: reference to Arab writers writing about tin-mining “as early as 940 CE”
p. 129: reference to Peter Durand and tin cans

p. 130: statistic – “Malayan rubber exports went from 104 tons in 1905 to 196,000 tons…”
p. 132: statistic-quote – “In 1864, 291 tons of tin reached Singapore…”

p. 135: reference to a customs union in 1931
pp. 135-136: quotation: “By the 1930s, the Western merchants saw the Chinese….” [Wong Lin Ken, “Singapore Its Growth as an Entrepot Port, 1819-1941”, in Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. IX, No. 1, March 1978]

p. 139: quotation: “Singapore ceased to be an isolated…” [C. Mary Turnbull…]