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strikingly manifested in the opening years of this 

 century by the despatch of two successive expeditions, 

 under the leadership of Dr. Nieuwenhuis, to study 

 the people, their customs and conditions, and by its 

 generous expenditure upon the publication of the 

 handsome volumes in which he has embodied his 

 valuable reports.^ On the second journey this 

 intrepid traveller penetrated to the head of the 

 Batang Kayan, and there made the acquaintance of 

 the same Kenyahs who had recently visited the 

 Resident of the Baram. In this way the spheres of 

 Dutch and of British influence have been made to 

 overlap in these central highlands. 



1 ' Quer durch Borneo ^^ by A. W. Nieuwenhuis. 



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