Plate 5 (face pg. 8) 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
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It has seemedto us worth while to bring together in these pagesthese few historical notes. The later history ofBorneo, which is in the main the story of its occupa-tion by and division between the Dutch and English,and especially the romantic history of the acquisitionof the raj of Sarawak by its first English rajah,Sir James Brooke, has often been told,^ and for thisreason may be dismissed by us in a very few words.The coasts of Borneo have long been occupiedby a Mohammedan population of Malay culture ;this population is partly descended from Malayand Arab immigrants, and partly from indigenousindividuals and communities that have adopted theMalay faith and culture in recent centuries. WhenEuropeans first visited the island, this population,dwelling for the most part, as it still does, in villagesand small towns upon the coast and in or near the 1 See especially the recently published History of Sa7-awak under its TwoWhite Rajahs, by S. Baring-Gould and C. A. Bampfylde, London, 1910.
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CHAP.,I HISTORY OF BORNEO 9 mouths of the rivers, owed allegiance to severalMalay sultans and a number of subordinate rulers,the local rajahs and pangirans. The principalsultans had as their capitals, from which they tooktheir titles, Bruni on the north-west, Sambas in thewest, Pontianak at the mouth of the Kapuas river,Banjermasin in the south at the mouth of the riverof the same name, Pasir at the south-east corner,Kotei and Balungan on the east at the mouths ofthe rivers of those names ; while the Sultan of Jolo,the capital of the Sulu islands, which lie off the northcoast, claimed sovereignty over the northern end ofBorneo. But these Malay sultans were not thefirst representatives in the island of culture and ofcivilised or semi-civilised rule ; for history preservessome faint records of still earlier times, of whichsome slight confirmation is afforded by survivingtraces of the culture then introduced. In spite of all the work done on the history of theEast Indies, most of what oc

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