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Sir W. H. Treacher. British Borneo

British Borneo

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BRITISH BORNEO: SKETCHES OF. BRUNAI, SARAWAK, LABUAN. AND. NORTH BORNEO

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

Chapter IX

Chapter X

Chapter XI

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Sir W. H. Treacher

Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo

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It somewhat militates against the correctness of this history that the Buludupihs are distinguished by the absence of Mongolian features.

The general appellation given to the aborigines by the modern Malays—to whom reference will be made later on—is Dyak, and they are divided into numerous tribes, speaking very different dialects of the Malayo-Polynesian stock, and known by distinctive names, the origin of which is generally obscure, at least in British North Borneo, where these names are not, as a rule, derived from those of the rivers on which they dwell.

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