The River Kampong: Brass workers turn a wax mould for a brass bowl. The wax mould is set around a sand centre then set in the sand outer mould which conforms to the shape of the wax mould. When molten brass is poured into the mould the wax melts and the brass takes its place. Malaya build their houses on stilts, a simple and straightforward nut. In the whole of Malaysia you can tell a Malay house from a Chinese or an Indian one by its stilts. True the Sakai in Malaya and the Iban tribes of Borneo put their houses off the ground but they are different again. In Brunei town the Malays have gone one better, they have built their town in a river. Ten thousand men, women and children are born, live and die, eat and sleep over the water. May 01, 1950. (Photo by British Official Photograph).