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where there are cattle ; Malaboong, a river adjacent to it ; 

 Tooncoo, the next, and Leebait the last. Unsang termi- 

 nates eastward by the Bluff Points, and on the northern 

 rounding lies Tambeesan, which forms a harbour between 

 it and the main, having about four fathoms. The 

 country in the neighbourhood produces the Alexandrian 

 Laurel, or Palo Maria of the Spaniards, much esteemed 

 for masts. The north coast of Unsang has many bays, 

 but none which afford shelter in northerly winds. There 

 are on this coast many large rivers, thirty in number, 

 from Tambeesan to Sandakan, all (except Maroak) branches 

 of the Kinabatangan river, which comes from the Lake 

 of Keeney Balloo." 



These are the principal points and rivers mentioned by 

 Dalrymple, and these copious extracts are given of the 

 coast not visited by us, as a guide for those who may 

 chance to visit those regions without being able to obtain 

 access to the works of this persevering and intelligent 

 navigator, the want of which I much felt. Where we 

 have come into actual contact with the places which he 

 has described from the reports of others, and when we 

 consider that some errors may be attributable to the in- 

 tervention of the Malay language, they have been found 

 to be tolerably accurate. But it would be well to cau- 

 tion those intending to navigate the eastern limit of 

 Borneo, that numerous dangers are reported to exist 

 southward of Maratua, which have no place upon the 

 charts. They were all distinctly pointed out and named 

 by Tuan Hadji, the pilot of those regions. 



Having now adverted to the authority of Dalrymple, as 

 to the state of the Sooloo Sovereignty in 1763, 1 will add 



