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A VrSIT Tt> THE IKDlAN j^RCIIJPKLAfiU, 



CHAPTER VIIL 



1l4I'4Tjl ANI> DTAE8 iS UaPKCn TDIIK PIILUIfJAL OOAILLCCBa— SEfCfiBAS UALjlTfl— 

 li£kBltAtl J>¥jL1lfr — Tai XAUT [-fiJkillT THK I^¥4^IL {U^ttdJEQSa — SJtB^AmUWS^ 



iiiE3i>iLSLKa on til K in ifiitAncjL ribOFEireiTTrxaj Asji iya odr roahsa o^bilatiovm 



AilAineT TUFM — TliEI^AHATfCi»8 ttJf T1TE i4.EJU:E,iS fJJtATEd^ — h^rAHATlOliE OF TGt 

 KAJAtt 6V SAKAWAlt — PIKATJt rUa^^irSB BOOCdUT Tn — ATTiCK OS eAVDHO BY 

 Till SEBEflAa PtRATlSsi — A CRUT ItUliaDOIfa — 111:1 PATS — KtLMAHRlir— TUli KUAlt 



oi» SARAWAK RAiiiiitia t^Jitii wtta Bi9 nvsi — iB jihined dt sative ALLZsa — ^ 

 um rflotFBKinjfffs— MTPiw m sabawae. 



The Serebas, like the mbabitauts of the other rivera 

 on the nortJi-'west coast of Borneo are flivided into two 

 distinct classes — the Malays and the Djaks. 



The oriiriu of the present Malay race of JSerebas is 

 a question unsettled hy ethnologists. They are not 

 intiigonous, as the Dyaks are. Once, however, established 

 in their present locality, the^^ woiild natnniUy fall under 

 the dominion of the Sultan of Borneo. Btit it ia recorded 

 that, towards the end of the seventeenth century, tliey 

 rejected his mJc, and offered to become subjects of the 

 Sultan of Johore, from whose coiintry it has been supposed 

 that tliey aprung, and whose power wjia then considerable. 



