Here is part two of the history of piracy in Southeast Asia written by Dr Lee English and edited with permission by BorneoHistory.net. Dr Lee English earned his doctorate from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Dr English uses the term “marine predator” for pirate however I prefer the term
The sections of this essay are taken and edited, with permission from the dissertation of Dr Lee English who earned his doctorate from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Dr English uses the term “marine predator” for pirate however I prefer the term pirate to avoid confusion among my readers.
Some small history visits The Taking of Muka Fort Mukah was a small town located on the coast between Sibu and Bintulu on Borneo Island in Sarawak. Apparently, in 1869, there was fort located in the town with cells for prisoners. The name was Fort Burdett. The person in charge
New Species Two new species of Fanged Frog from South Eastern Borneo have been made known to science. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5575.3.3 New Species Two new species of tropical blueberry from central Sabah have been discovered. From the person who discovered the plants: Blueberries are edible and quite tasty and are sold to
The Kanyau Iban The Kanyau Iban are a group of Iban who live on the border between Sarawak Malaysia and Indonesia on Borneo Island. The Kanyau Iban consists of 108 households that live in the villages of Sedap, Kelayam, and Kampong Madang, which are on the upper reaches of Batang.
The following was adapted from an article by Gregory Kiyai@Keai of the University of Malaya. Efforts to contact him by e-mail for permission have proven unsuccessful. Hinduism reached Borneo as early as the 5th century or possibly earlier. Evidence includes records written on stone from Kotei, East Borneo, which details
New Species Three new species of the Hairy Fungus Beetle (Litargus) have been made known to science. Two are from Sulawesi while the third is found in Sabah and Sarawak. Munis Entomology & Zoology Mun. Ent. Zool. https://www.munisentzool.org/ 20 (1) ISSN 1306-3022 (January, 2025) New Species A new species of
Medium This begins a series called Adventures and tells of trips Suriani, Dzul and I have taken through SEA. The Other World and Ali Ternate, Indonesia-Alfred Wallace, the premier biologist who with Charles Darwin published the famous paper on evolution, would have loved this. Indeed he would have. You see,
Architecture of the cross river Kampongs Kuching This is one of the very first articles written about the Kampongs Sebrang across the river from Kuching on the north bank of the Sarawak River. Yon Syafni Samat is currently working on her doctorate degree at the University of Sydney. She is
Pre-History of Borneo During the height of the cold times during the Pleistocene (2.58 million to 11,700 years ago), all the land was connected and called Sundaland. The Malay Peninsula was connected to Borneo, Java and Sumatra. The water was locked up in ice in the north. The last time
Efforts were made to find Jutta Kelling from FernUniversität Hagen in Germany who authored the below sections to request permission to publish the passages on my blog. I was not able to find any trace of her/him. However, a full citation is given at the end of this piece. The
he Murut people live in Sabah along the Sapulut and Padas rivers. They can also be found along the border with Sarawak, where they are known as the Tagal people. In Brunei, they are referred to as the Lun Bawang, where they supplied soldiers to the Sultans of Brunei. They