The Expedition of 1934 The Kanowit Punitive Expedition One fine morning in June 1934, we left Sibu by way of the Chamois. A few hours later, we stayed at Kanowit to make arrangements for our forces. We changed into a small launch, took the Kanowit River, and stopped at a location a few stretches after Julau. We […]
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Book Review: SMJ 1970The Malays of South-West Sarawak before Malaysia by Tom HarrissonReviewed by Gale Dixon (Department of Geography, University of Oregon)This big, heavy volume is packed with good information important to professional anthropologists, historians economists, geographers, and sociologists and of interest to a wide readership of informed people who make the social sciences their
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A Walk into the Gates of Hell:(黄泉)(地府)(九泉) Walking toward The Chinese Temple Hong San Si of Jalan Petanak Kuching one should bear to the left. On this side of the temple is the entrance to the gates of hell. The doors are large and forbidding. As I eased one of the doors open there was
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All Creatures Great and Small # 26 Current research in Borneo Hey All: I have a few segments in caps and I don’t know how to get rid of them Please ignore. Tour Guides and Local Information. When tour guides tell visitors about how the natives use plants and other local features within the rainforest,
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The Chinese Temple Hong San Si of Jalan Petanak Kuching The Temple of Hong San Si reflects what is called “Chinese religion”. It is a mixture of Tao, Buddhist and Hindu beliefs. From these comes a system which reflects deities within each of these religions. The Temple is not like a catholic or protestant church.
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Greetings! Happy Gawai to all. I am presenting these six old stories about the Mias and the people to celebrate the holiday. Six Mias (orangutan) Stories by Gaun anak Sureng Balin anak Salau accompanied by Sanjat anak Rayang went out hunting with guns to Bukit Menuku on the upper Mentu stream. As they walked that
Tapadong -700 Years of Cave History in Sabah The Tapadong Caves are on the middle reaches of the Segama River north of Lahad Datu and have been frequented by man since the early times. From a small rock shelter under 6 inches of pure guano came Sabah’s first Bronze tool, a socketed axe of a
The Helms Letters Ludvig Verner Helms, a young Dane of 26, was hired to take up an appointment in Kuching as an agent of the London firm Messers. R&J Henderson had a concession for working the antimony mines. Four years later, he became the Borneo Company LTD manager on its formation in 1856. The Company
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Brooke and Brunei On Brooke’s arrival in 1839, Brunei was a decayed empire stretching the whole northwest coast of Borneo. In some rivers, pirate communities had been established. Pangerans at the capital of Brunei played politics. In other rivers, such as the Saribas and the Skrang, Arab adventurers and Brunei chiefs encouraged the local Dyak
Melanitis lida All Creatures Great and Small # 25 Fossil leaf The first fossil leaf study of Sarawak’s rainforest indicates the dominant tree form was the dipterocarps ( the trees that are there now) dated back 4 million years. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.12949 New Species A new species has joined the Drop Tongue Plant (Schismatoglottideae). There are now
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