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,
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 )
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
Menu Home Posts Gallery Keris (Gallery) Sarawak River Valley About Us All Creatures Great and Small #46 Frogs We examined body size, condition, abundance, and different species of frogs in primary forest, secondary forest, and agriculture in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo to determine whether individual-, population show similar sensitivities to land-use
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
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