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situated about the sources of the western branch of 

 the Batang Lupar river, in the direction of the lake 

 Danau Malayu and the Pontianak river. They were 

 expelled from thence by their enemies, and descending 

 the Batang Lupar, established their villages on a small 

 river named Sebooyoh, from which they are now 

 designated. This river is situated a little to the west- 

 ward of the mouth of the Batang Lupar, between it 

 and the Sadong rivers. From this they carried on 

 war with their old enemies of Sakarran with various 

 success, but were finally compelled, about ten years 

 before the new era of Sarawak, again to decamp 

 farther westward, when they divided into three tribes, 

 and settled in the villages they now occupy. That 

 portion which followed the chief orang kaya of the 

 tribe, and whose family has for many generations pro- 

 duced its chief, settled at Lundu, which has now 

 become a beautiful fortified village, and from which 

 the gallant old chief has frequently made successful 

 expeditions against his hereditary enemies. 



The river of Lundu is situated to the westward of the 

 Santu-bong, or western entrance to the river of Sara- 

 wak : this river, which is not large, has its rise in the 

 Sarawak territory and country occupied by the land 

 Dyaks of Singhie. Another large village of the Se- 

 booyoh Dyaks is established on a creek of the Sarawak 

 river about a mile below the Malayan town ; the creek 

 is called Pedungan, and the Dyaks are often desig- 

 nated as orang or Dyak Pedungan the men or 



