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Landok mines WtU the west coast, which aw amongst the oldest and moat 

 product! vc in tin- woThl, 



Rivers. — Borneo is abundantly supplied with rivers, which may 

 be disposed in live main Ihivial baling. Of these the lea-it extensive 



mtnpriMoi ttn- north-western A>>\ f t>n> Keliii£k:tn<; rangi-, draining 



the Brunei and Sarawak districts through the Tewftmn and TampA- 

 *iik rivtTH, having their §ourecs in Kina Bulu ; the Limbing (Bru- 

 nei), Barron, Bintfdu, Rejuiig {navigable Car 140 miles), Serfbas, 

 Butung-Lupur, itnd Sarawak. But by far the lnrgast ravens are 

 those of the wroth- western basin, where the Kapuas, rising in 114" 

 K. I n^. reaches the const between Mcmpawu and Sukadiimi, and the 

 lorihi (liiLTtjiir«Mn*in\ the great, lluviul arli-ry uf tin- islatul, flow* fur 

 hundred* nf miles nearly due wroth to the Java Sea in LM? E. long, 

 over against Mudnni. Both of these streams appear to have u com- 

 mnii source near the unexplored Luke Kutei-Lntuu. 



Jfext in mu"-r;.m.v- >, i j i . - Kuh-i, ..r Muhakkam, wliii-li ri-i'H in. 

 Minim. Lii-sm-Tiil;i, uii'I Hows with u rapid euiirM.- mainly eastwards 

 to Macu-^ar Strait* which it enters through several mouths, If-s 

 i If] la, projecting - ■ -n -;■ L---iMLily mmwutiIs, mul embracing . r jQ miles of 

 coast, pn«sents (vreat dilEeuItie* to nuvtgaitoh, although the main 

 channel is aflofflrfblo us far a? Mura Puliou E. Jong,) for steamers 

 drawing 10 feet of water. According to Carl Book, the tfahakkam 

 Iuih a total length of not less than GOO mile*. North of the KiUei 

 basin is that of the Bulungnu, whieli has also an easterly course, with 

 a delta in the Celebes. Sea at the entrance uf Macassar Strait. Besides 

 1 li< -■■ ihi-ri- ;ltv hundreds of smallrr streams inching the coast in 

 independent channels, but mostly inaccessible to vessels of heavy 

 draft. 



Lakes, — No large lakes, abdotty so-talllcd, »ri- kimwn t.i exist in 

 Burner i, those spoken of by travellers being rather temporary lagoons, 

 or expansions of the rivers in the low-lying or level plains Even 

 the eiusU'iuv nf the in tub-disputed Lake Balu, south-east of Kina 

 Bulu, bafl recently been disproved. Mention, however, is made of a 

 Lake 1 Paiuro-ifalayu, in 1° if N. lut,, 114* 20' E„ long., said ba be 

 nver 20 mile* lung, and 10 or 12 broad, with a depth uf 18 feet. 



Tin.' r..rni:iri4UL i»f tin.- iVinnvtri l.ilzi s. nr " iLmnuK," as ihc:y are called 

 by the luitivin, is thus described by Dr, Schwauer ! 



** By dunnu id to be understood an inland sheet of water in the deepest 

 p.irt {if a marshy district in th>- immediate' vieiiiity nf rjvi'rs. Their mode, 

 of fennntiotj often resembles that of the ramils, simh nn those of the 

 Mm-tapum* and, other Horucan streams, which are used for shortening the 

 water route, nud acme limes dug by hand, but mostly formed hy the rush 



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