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Pirates

The sections of this essay are taken and edited, with permission from the dissertation of Dr Lee English who earned his doctorate from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Dr English uses the term “marine predator” for pirate however I  prefer the term pirate to avoid confusion among my readers.

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February 23, 2025 No Comments

An incident at Fort Mukah

Some small history visits The Taking of Muka Fort Mukah was a small town located on the coast between Sibu and Bintulu on Borneo Island in Sarawak. Apparently, in 1869, there was fort located in the town with cells for prisoners. The name was Fort Burdett. The person in charge

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February 19, 2025 No Comments

All Creatures Great and Small #69

New Species Two new species of Fanged Frog from South Eastern Borneo have been made known to science. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5575.3.3 New Species Two new species of tropical blueberry from central Sabah have been discovered. From the person who discovered the plants:  Blueberries are edible and quite tasty and are sold to

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February 10, 2025 No Comments

Kanyau Iban

The Kanyau Iban The Kanyau Iban are a group of Iban who live on the border between Sarawak Malaysia and Indonesia on Borneo Island. The Kanyau Iban consists of 108 households that live in the villages of Sedap, Kelayam, and Kampong Madang, which are on the upper reaches of Batang. 

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February 5, 2025 No Comments

Elephant Man, Borneo and Limbang

The following was adapted from an article by Gregory Kiyai@Keai of the University of Malaya. Efforts to contact him by e-mail for permission have proven unsuccessful. Hinduism reached Borneo as early as the 5th century or possibly earlier. Evidence includes records written on stone from Kotei, East Borneo, which details

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January 30, 2025 No Comments

All Creatures Great and Small #68

New Species Three new species of the Hairy Fungus Beetle (Litargus) have been made known to science. Two are from Sulawesi while the third is found in Sabah and Sarawak. Munis Entomology & Zoology Mun. Ent. Zool. https://www.munisentzool.org/ 20 (1) ISSN 1306-3022 (January, 2025) New Species A new species of

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January 27, 2025 No Comments

A medium and ternate

Medium This begins a series called Adventures and tells of trips Suriani, Dzul and I have taken through SEA. The Other World and Ali Ternate, Indonesia-Alfred Wallace, the premier biologist who with Charles Darwin published the famous paper on evolution, would have loved this. Indeed he would have.  You see,

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January 22, 2025 No Comments

Architecture of Kampongs across the Sarawak River

Architecture of the cross river Kampongs Kuching This is one of the very first articles written about the Kampongs Sebrang across the river from Kuching on the north bank of the Sarawak River. Yon Syafni Samat is currently working on her doctorate degree at the University of Sydney. She is

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January 18, 2025 No Comments

Borneo Pre History

Pre-History of Borneo During the height of the cold times during the Pleistocene (2.58 million to 11,700 years ago), all the land was connected and called Sundaland. The Malay Peninsula was connected to Borneo, Java and Sumatra. The water was locked up in ice in the north. The last time

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January 15, 2025 No Comments

Indians from Mutiny to Sarawak

Efforts were made to find Jutta Kelling from FernUniversität Hagen in Germany  who authored the below sections to request permission to publish the passages on my blog.  I was not able to find any trace of her/him.  However, a full citation is given at the end of this piece. The

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January 12, 2025 No Comments
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