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Singapore………………

The city of Singapore was not built up gradually, as
most cities are, by the development of commerce on
the banks of some river, or on the crossroads of old
trade routes. It was simply invented by a man' named
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, early in the nineteenth
century looking at a map, as the great stopping-place
on the trade route to the Far East. Although people had
once lived there, the island of Singapore, when he
arrived, was largely .deserted except for a large
quantity of rats and insects. He didn't waste time,
however, in buying the island from its owners and then
proceeded to set up a flag-pole thirty-six feet high.