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All Creatures Great and Small # 50

Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us All Creatures Great and Small # 50 Birds at Semenggoh, Sarawak A comparison between birds captured in 1964-1965 compared with those secured in 2015-2016 has revealed a dramatic decline in species. The 64-65 capture was 139 species, while the2015-16

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February 4, 2024 No Comments

Old Borneo News Stories

Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us Old Borneo News Stories Newspaper Articles Thanks to Veronica Chang Schmid for finding and posting these articles. When did Headhunting begin? Mr. Alan Coates, in his “Letter to the Editor” in the Sarawak Gazette of 16th December 1957, states

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January 31, 2024 No Comments

All Creatures Great and Small # 49

Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us All Creatures Great and Small # 49 Fish A wild betta (Betta burdigala) is only known from Bangka Island, while a wild (Betta uberis) resides in Kalimantan Tengah and Kalimantan Barat in Indonesia. Both species share numerous physical characteristics,

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January 27, 2024 No Comments

An Old Ruler of Santubong

Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us An Old Ruler of Santubong For those who have just joined us: The article is the continuation of a series of the rulers of Santubong told us by a Dukun in Kampong Panglima Seman Llama near Kuching. For earlier

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January 18, 2024 No Comments

The Rulers of Santubong 1131-1242

Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us The Rulers of Santubong 1131-1242 We continue on with the next three rulers of Santubong as told to us by the Dukun. The existence of Sri Vijaya has been called into question by the scholar Dr. Liam Kelly of

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January 7, 2024 No Comments

All Creatures Great and Small #48

Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us All Creatures Great and Small #48 https://publisher.unimas.my/ojs/index.php/BJK/issue/view/241 Tom’s Note: It has been the policy of the column “All Creatures Great and Small” to draw attention to those who publish research papers about Borneo. According to the British Journal Nature,

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December 30, 2023 No Comments

Sagenda Sarik and Sagenda LeLang

Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us Sagenda Sarik and Sagenda LeLang Kundor These are numbers four and five of the rulers of Santubong as related to us by the dukun. The story, according to him, is connected to Sagenda Lelang Saganda Sarik (Indra Sarik )

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December 24, 2023 No Comments

Love on the Mountain Santubong and Se Jinjang

Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us Love on the Mountain Santubong and Se Jinjang My favourite piece of oral history about Sarawak. Kuching, Sarawak, is dominated by a mountain called Santubong. This article is attributed to the reign of Sagenta Galam by the Dukun who

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December 17, 2023 No Comments

Santubong: First Two Rulers

Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us Santubong: First Two Rulers We begin this series with the rulers of Santubong from ~966-~1512.(the dates are not exact as the symbol ~ tells you) We obtained the information from a Dukun in a Kampung who said his grandfather

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December 10, 2023 No Comments

All Creatures Great and Small # 47

Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us All Creatures Great and Small # 47 Coral Reefs Need to study the reefs before they are gone, and so are the tourists. Research papers compiled indicated that Malaysian-based coral reef publication in WoS database is relatively lacking, especially

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December 6, 2023 No Comments
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