i& SKETCH OF BORNEO. 



anti, and between them are a number of towns 

 and villages, the names of wbich are not gene- 

 ralij known even to Eastern traders. The towQ 

 of Coti is situated aböüt 50 miles up the river- 

 of that name. The trades and products of the 

 country are nearlj the same as at Borneo proper. 

 This tovvn which rosé upon the decline of Pas- 

 sir, is chieflj inhabited by Bugis traders. The 

 Sultan resides considerably further up the river 

 \i?ith a few Malays and a great number of Da- 

 yaks subject to him. According to Radermacher 

 the Sultan of Coti, iii 1780, was named Hage- 

 ahmed. 



Aparkarang Hes to the South of Coti, and f» 

 likevrise under the authority of a Sultan, who, 

 in 1780^ was named Sultan Thora, This place 

 is at present so insignificant, that I have never 

 been able to meet any Trader, whether Native or 

 European, that had ever heard of it. I believe, 

 however, that it lies between the river Montu 

 and the dangerous bay of Balik-papan, so nam- 

 ed, because almost every boat that enters it ia 

 overset by the strength of the current. Between 

 Balik-papan and Passir, formerly, in the time of 

 Valentyn, lay a town inhabited by a very brave 

 and ferocious race of Dayak, who made use of 

 the most dangerous poisooed bow-arrows^ an4 



