The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations (1912) (14784303382)

"LIOH MATU (THE PLACE OF A HUNDRED ISLANDS), AT THE HEAD OF THE BARAM RIVER." (original caption).
Plate 14 (face pg. 24) from C.Hose / W.McDougall (1912): The Pagan Tribes of Borneo.
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Title: The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Hose, Charles, 1863-1929 McDougall, William, 1871-1938 Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort), 1855-1940
Subjects: Ethnology Anthropometry
Publisher: London : Macmillan and co., limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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lowed the humiliating counsel.Not until the early forties was peace restored, afteran event of the most romantic and improbable kind,the accession of an English gentleman to the throneof Sarawak. Of this incident, so fateful for the future of thewestern side of Borneo, it must suffice to say herethat James Brooke, a young Englishman, havingresigned his commission in the army of the BritishEast India Company, invested his fortune in ayacht of 140 tons, with which he set sail in 1838for the eastern Archipelago. His bold but vaguedesign was to establish peace, prosperity, and justgovernment in some part of that troubled area,whose beauties he had admired and whose mis-fortunes he had deplored on the occasion of anearlier voyage to the China seas. When atSingapore, he heard that the Malays of Sarawak,a district forming the southern extremity of theSultanate of Bruni, had rebelled against the Bruninobles, and had in vain appealed to the DutchGovernor-general at Batavia for deliverance from
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Plate 14. LIOH MATU (THE PLACE OF A HUNDRED ISLANDS),AT THE HEAD OF THE BARAM RIVER. HISTORY OF BORNEO 25 their oppressors. Under the nominal authority ofthe Sultan, these Bruni nobles, many of whom wereof Arab descent, had brought all the north-westernpart of Borneo to a state of chronic rebellion. Theyhad taught the Sea Dayaks of the Batang Lupar andneighbouring rivers to join them in their piraticalexcursions, and, being to some extent dependentupon their aid, were compelled to treat them withsome consideration ; but all other communities weretreated by them with a rapacity and cruelty whichwas causing a rapid depopulation and the return tojungle of much cultivated land. Brooke sailed for Sarawak in August 1839, andfound the country torn by internal conflicts. TheSultan had recently sent Muda Hasim, his uncleand heir-presumptive to the throne of Bruni, torestore order; but this weak though amiable noblehad found himself quite incapable of coping withthe situation. Brooke spent some