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With ft flotuewhat irregular coast-line of over 2000 miles, but less 

 frdenterf than that of most other large inlands in the archipelago, 

 Borneo olFurs few Hpudim* Inivh or deep-water haven?, except in the 

 mirth, wIuti" I lu- stain ii in I is higher and more : il La j jT _ Elsewhere 

 the shore* are luustly fringed by a broad margin nf low-Iyiny and 

 mandiy lands from 30 tn r-,0 mil,-s wide, nihility of recent nllimal 

 fott nati on , N*W land, as in Liindak on the west side, i* known to 

 ]>iri>u jstim-d from the *ea during llit last four hundred year*, 

 ami lia- cou^dine appear- in mi other si^ns in be i -in . -award*. 



Thfl generally uniform outlines are relieved chiefly by l>atu 

 Bight on the Wert; Urunei and Jlarudu liny* v,ith Kndat harbour 

 on the north ; Paiuifi, Labiik, ami Danel liuys with ^andttkan 

 harbour in tlie extreme north-west ; Adang t Pumiikuu, and Khim- 

 pang Buys on the west, and Sampil Bay an the smith coast, Tlie 

 mort conspicuous headlands are Capes Uatn, fc>iruk T and Hnrani on 

 tin 1 eu*t side ; SaUipMn-Matitfio and Unsaug rm tin' ni.rth ; l\aii- 

 yungati mi llie • ; Sun_yi L!]iam. Malaitg-Layrr, FIjiI Poiul. and 

 Satuhn on the wmth* 



There are few important islands on the Bornean seubn.-trd. Limn* 

 which fontierly existed having apparently been joined to the uniin-> 

 land by the process of ojdtvrtval, ur creation >d new alluvial land now 

 going cm. Tin- largest are Pnhui Laut, clow* to tlie. south-east coast ; 

 Cammula, which gives its name to the channel between the south- 

 west roa*t and liillttnn ; tlte Tumbilan and Xaluna groups far tn -i n- 

 ward of the west coast ; Rangimy (Banggi) and Hnlambangan, ten 

 mi)"- from the northern extremity of Borneo, Some historic, interest 



attaohai to lbihonbaiignu f when the Eiw India Company mad - its 



earliest settlement in these Waters in 17(3.3, over twenty year* before 

 the occupation of Pinung. Since the reei-nt creation P-Htihh N ■ ■ rt h 

 \) -rri'", ]:al;usil';in^r:i3i Ii:ch a.ijnin Ueouie I ". r . I i - 1 « lerril rv. 



t if rh>- inu-ri ^mf I V .rs i J:ir;-:^ p-irl --till n-ut.vti- i>- !«■ Drplnivil, 



to that of its general configuration little h known heyond the more 

 snlienl feature?. The mutintain system !*ecms to be m di^poseti that, 

 W*-r>' !be laud >ubtn.-i-.'^.l a JVw hundred fe«t, il Would |nv^tit suine- 

 wliat tlie same euriuins tuil lines an tln- j nmre westerly inlands of Celebes 

 and Jilolo* Frt«m a central nucleus lying much neuivr the west than 

 the ca.-t eoart there radiate north, east, and ifoii I It U^r tualn rallies, 

 < ri'-* ■ in— tluw briwl plains, or slyhtly elevated tabhd.tnds, oottc- 

 spondin^ to tlie three ^rent iniirtne inh-t« on the east side of Celebes. 



Under the various names of Kelingkang { Mayans-Mint), Madi, 

 ^ind Angji-Anjjn, the largest nnd loftiest of these nin^es traverses 



