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 rulers, see BorneoHistory.net. The ruler […]
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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 Brunei University. (see file:///C:/Users/User/Downloads/Rescuing_History_from_Srivijaya_The_Fall%20(5).pdf) Enjoy!
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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 ) ~1053-1096 Indra Sarik was also
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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 told us these oral histories.
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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 told him the history. So,
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Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us Krakatoa Volcano did not erupt in 536 The Eruption of Krakatoa in 536 AD by Tom McLaughlin In our book, we supported the hypothesis by David Keys that there was a volcanic eruption of the Krakatoa volcano in 536. This eruption was on such
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Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us Cannibalism in Borneo Cannibalism and Borneo The Iban or Dyaks began their conquest of Borneo from the Kapuas River and pushed north into the hinterland. Unfortunately, there were already tribes of people living in the areas they wished to occupy. They did not speak
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Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us Sultan Tengah There may have been a person called the Raja Tengah who left Brunei after a dispute with his brother and had adventures in the south of Borneo during the 1600s. Here we look at five different stories. Where the stories are the
Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us Brunei Civil War The Brunei Civil War There have been many written accounts by “scholars” about the Brunei Civil War. My wife and I decided to go back to the original account and tell that story. _______________________________________________________ We begin with Sultan Abdul Kahar, who,
Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us Christianity: A small town in Sarawak Tales of Lundu Lundu: a small collection of articles. Some Sarawak Curiosities in the British Library by Bob Reese Borneo Research Bulletin Vol. 37 The most detailed section of a pamphlet written by Mrs. Harriet McDougal in 1878
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