Past Posts - Borneo History

Sungei of Sabah

Tapadong -700 Years of Cave History in Sabah The Tapadong Caves are on the middle reaches of the Segama River […]

The Helms Letters Ludvig Verner Helms, a young Dane of 26, was hired to take up an appointment in Kuching

Brooke and Brunei On Brooke’s arrival in 1839, Brunei was a decayed empire stretching the whole northwest coast of Borneo.

Melanitis lida All Creatures Great and Small # 25 Fossil leaf The first fossil leaf study of Sarawak’s rainforest indicates

Comic Tales of Api Salui by Benedict Sandin Sarawak Museum Journal July-December 1960 Tom’s Note: The below story has been

The Chinese Revolt by Rev. Brian Taylor SMJ 1969 The first woman, other than women with their husbands, ever sent

Opinion Tom McLaughlinTom HarrissonWe now get to the part of the Sarawak Museum Journal where Tom Harrisson has written many

All Creatures Great and Small # 24 Peat Peat exsists along the coastal areas of both Borneo and Sumatra. Peat

Asun’s Rebellion: The Political Growing Pains of a Tribal Society in Brooke Sarawak, 1929-1940 by Robert Pringle Tom’s Note: This

The Mother of the Pleiades A Mythological Story of the Iban Almighty God made a golden stone in the eastern