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In 1897, Skeat compiled his notes and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSelangor Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003earticles to form the manuscript of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMalay Magic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand returned to England, where he approached the publishing house Macmillan.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eIn a hurry to get back to Malaya, Skeat left his manuscript with his friend, Charles Otto Blagden, for revision and follow-up with Macmillan.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe book was finally published in 1900.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSkeat’s interest in the Malays and the Malayan aborigines was the subject of his second book:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePagan Race of the Malayan Peninsula\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1906). He also published an account of his 1899–1900 expedition in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eReminiscences of the Cambridge University Expedition to the North-Eastern Malay States, 1899–1900\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein volume 26, issue 4 of the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eJournal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Studies\u003c\/em\u003e. Thereafter, his health failed, and he was unable to return to Malaya again.\u003cbr\u003e__\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"JsGRdQ\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn general good order. Pages clean and unmarked. 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