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little below the village are two large and dangerous rapids. 

 Near to the higher one, the waters of the small river 

 Segou disembogue. It flows from the eastward, and 

 on its banks are three small and impoverished tribes, 

 that of Segou containing thirty, that of Staang twenty, 

 and one other of twenty families. No other tribes 

 are met with descending the river, until we come to 

 the mouth of the Suntah stream. On the right-hand 

 side, the inhabitants of a small village of Sempro Dyaks 

 cultivate the land up this river, where diamonds are 

 found in the greatest abundance. Suntah is an hour 

 and a half fast pulling with the stream below Se-bayet ; 

 and Ledah Tanah is about eight miles below the mouth 

 of the Suntah river. 



To the eastward of the river Segou is the ancient 

 tribe of Suntah, situated on the Quap mountain. From 

 three hundred these people have been reduced to sixty 

 families, by the Arab pirate, Sereib Sahib. Their 

 landing-place is on the Quap river, which discharges 

 itself into the Sarawak, about eight miles below the 

 town. The situation and numbers of the different 

 divisions of the Sebooyah villages and tribes have been 

 noticed in the preceding pages, which will give the 

 reader, we trust, a more correct idea of the territory 

 of Sarawak, and of its inhabitants, than the public are 

 at present possessed of. 



Besides the tribes now inhabiting the country 

 of Sarawak, many more are anxious to be admitted 

 from the territory of Sambas, and the countries of 

 native princes ; but, wishing to live on friendly terms 

 with all its neighbours, as far as possible, this immigra- 



