CHAPTER IV. 



THE KINGDOM OP BORNEO THE MALAYS THE BTTGIS PEOPLE OF 



CELEBES THE ABOBIGINEES DUTCH AND ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS 



MAJOR MULLER'S EXPEDITION MR. MURRAY KILLED PRESENT 



STATE OF THE CAPITAL THE SULTAN SARAWAK AND MR. 



BROOKE'S POSSESSIONS DESCRIPTION OF SARAWAK ITS CHIEFS 



ITS NATIVE MERCHANTS AND INHABITANTS DYAK SLAVES IN 



BORNEO THEIR TREATMENT AND PRICE IN THE MARKET SLAVE 



DEBTORS. 



HAVING in the foregoing chapters given a general 

 description of the island of Borneo, or Kalamantan, 

 and having enumerated such of its vegetable, mineral, 

 and other productions, as cannot with equal propriety 

 be introduced into other parts of the work, it becomes 

 necessary to notice the political divisions of the land, 

 and to inquire, as far as our at present very limited 

 knowledge will allow, into the situation of the many 

 tribes inhabiting it, and their relations to each other. 

 The island has been, from its first discovery by Euro- 

 peans, separated into several kingdoms, the limits and 

 power of which have been constantly changing, their 

 extent and influence generally depending on the talent 

 and tastes of their respective chieftains. The Malays, 

 who settled here on the north coast during the nourish- 

 ing periods of the kingdoms of Singapore, Malacca, 

 and Johore, have become so mixed with the Javans 

 who colonized the western and southern shores, as to 



