Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us Brooke’s First War The Siniawan War 1836-1840 Before returning to Sarawak, James Brooke toured many islands, including the Celebes in Indonesia. It wasn’t until August 1840 that Brooke returned to Sarawak and found things as he left them. No progress had been made in […]
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Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us An epic poem of the Ga’ay EPICS OF THE GA’AY, THE MOST HEGEMONIC KAYANIC SUBGROUPS IN EAST AND NORTH KALIMANTAN The epic poem is very long, with over 200 footnotes. It is a fantastic tale which provides insight into the lives of the people.
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Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us Edward Dari Kampong Panglima Seman Lama Kisah Edward dari Kampong Panglima Seman Lama Dari akhir Perang Dunia II sehingga pergantian abad ini, orang Melayu di seberang sungai dari Kuching hidup dalam kemiskinan yang teruk. Sementara anak-anak penduduk bandar mempunyai sekolah seperti St. Thomas, St.
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Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us Bidayuh Headhunting Gosh, this was a hard one. A 50-page paper, the names in parentheses in the body of the paper are the sources of the material and not related to the author. A bibliography of the mentioned sources follows. Bidayuh Headhunting The Bidayuh
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Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us The Sins of the White Rajahs The Brookes had “holiday cottages” built for them. The first Rajah Brooke, James, had a cottage built for him on Mt. Peninjau which afforded him a magnificent view of the plain below. He enjoyed the pleasures of youths
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Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us An Iban Tale A Bizarre Iban Tale. This story was found in the Sarawak Gazette and included a mixture of Iban and English. I have edited and organized the tale, so it makes sense to the reader. In the village lived Kumang and Keles
The Japanese in Sarawak Three decades after Emperor Meiji had begun his industrialisation programme in the 1860s, there was a prolonged period of economic recession in Japan due to a worldwide recession. The new industries, especially textile manufacturing which was a mainstay of Japan’s port trade, were severely affected, resulting in many factories closing and
Good Morning, This is part two, of a Japanese man’s history in Sabah during World War II. I never knew Japan had offered opportunities for Japanese peasants to come to Sabah and acquire land for farming. Here is the continuation of his story of a person who left Japan, tried farming in Sabah and returned.
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Good Morning, All: I never knew Japan had offered opportunities for Japanese peasants to come to Sabah and acquire land for farming. Here is the story of one person who left Japan, tried farming in Sabah and returned. Except for spelling and minor mistakes, the translation is from a Japanese school teacher. Japanese Colonization of
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Selling Opium to the Natives Part Two Conflict with the Americans: Captain Smith on the Adele Daniel Smith returned to Penang from Bengal early in January 1814 commanding the Adele. In May, he had a brush with another of Britain’s enemies of the period. The British were involved in the War of 1812 with the
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