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MALAYAN ISLES. 



they ftaiii their bodies with blue, and by weights affixed to their 

 ears when young, flretch them till they fall on their fhouklers. 

 The chieftains pull out their fore teeth, and fubftitute others of 

 gold, and by way of ornament fling firings of tigers teeth round 

 their necks and bodies. Their arms are lances and poifoned 

 arrows ; feme of them lead a piratical life in the great rivers^ 

 and are moft formidable enemies. 

 Tigers. Let me here obferve that tigers, thofe cruel animals, fwarm 



in this illand, beyond which they happily ceafe ; nor are they 

 known in any of the iflands to the north or to the eaft of 



Borneo. 



After navigating along the northern coaft of the ifland, we 



Sambaar arrive, in Lat. 2° 28', on the point of Sambaar. Between this and 

 the iHe oi Billet ou \.o the weft, is a channel of a hundred and 

 fifty miles in breadth. Near to the weft of that ifland is the 



Island OF fmall ifle of Salt, and then the ifle of Bancci, all belonging to 



Salt and 



Banca. Java. 



From Sambaar point the coaft turns towards the north. In 



Succadana Lat. 0° 15' fouth, is Succadana^ and in Lat. 2° north is Sambas, 

 both at times frequented for the fake of commerce. From 'fari' 

 jong point the ifland trends to the north-eaft. The city of 



City oj Bomeo ftands in about Lat. 5° ;i5' north, on a large river, in the 



Borneo. , . , 



bottom of a bay. 



When the famous navigator Fon Noort was there in 1601, it 



confifted of three thoufand houfes, all built on pofts and floating 



planks, in the manner we have defcribed, fo that whenever the 



fultan chofe to change his pofition, he would move with all his 



city to another part of the river. Fofi Noort fpund this port 



much 



