The fourth episode of Amok in the Jungle is out now.

In this episode, Yap Ah Loy's dead mentor appears to him in a dream and encourages him to recapture Kuala Lumpur, while in Singapore a new Governor arrives with a drastic plan to end piracy in the Malacca Strait once and for all.

Listen to Episode 4 below:

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Further Reading

Here is the list of books, journal articles and other resources I used to research this episode:

• A History of Malaya by Richard Olof Winstedt
• SOME ACCOUNT OF THE INDEPENDENT NATIVE STATES OF THE MALAY PENINSULA, ESPECIALLY OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH LED TO THE MORE INTIMATE RELATIONS RECENTLY ADOPTED TOWARDS SOME OF THEM BY THE British Government. IN TWO PARTS by Frank Swettenham
• British Malaya by Frank Swettenham
• Footprints in Malaya by Frank Swettenham
• Swettenham by HS Barlow
• Play and politics : recollections of Malaya by W.H. Read
• Life of Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir Andrew Clarke by Robert Hamilton Vetch
• Sir Frank Swettenham's Malayan journals, 1874-1876
• Yap Ah Loy by Middlebrook
• The History of Early Kuala Lumpur by JM Gullick
• Sutan Puasa: Founder of Kuala Lumpur by Abdur-Razzaq Lubis
• British Intervention in Malaya 1867-1877 by C. Northcote Parkinson
• The Evolution of Overseas Chinese Social Organization in the 19th Century Western Malay States by Leigh Woh-Peng
• The Origin of British Administration in Malaya by Khoo Kay Kim
• PERAK DISTURBANCES 1871-75: BRITISH COLONIALISM, THE CHINESE SECRET SOCIETIES AND THE MALAY RULERS by Azmi Arifin
• The Voyages of Mohamed Ibrahim Munshi
• Britain's Intervention in Malaya: The Origin of Lord Kimberley's Instructions to Sir Andrew Clarke in 1873
• The Reasons for British Intervention in Malaya: Review and Reconsideration