EASTERN GEOGRAPHY'. 



brad-hunting expeditions, and the more heads liu can lay at the fact of fell 

 beloved, the more he is admired bylwrnnd fcaivd by "his fellow.*. The 

 practice in not confined to Borneo, or even. Lo the uri^bbi Hiring [sl.mils 

 hut ha* flourished from remote times among many of the wild tribes in 

 Further ludin, and so fur attests the continental origin of the "fair" races 

 in the archipelago. 



Reside* the Malays, who arc restricted to a few centres near thp cnewt, 

 tfpltm] other people hare settled in Borneo, which, from its central posi- 

 lion, has naturally httn made a newt fnr all the surrounding land*. That 

 the Javanese formerly uiaJe reditu r settle rmmts in the south in hIiowii by 

 monuments still ex Luting as far north as the Kutti Valley. Th»' Hugis of 

 Celebes have long maintained eon*iderahle a- -ttliiuiettts n/tru 1 Kmitliern Jiud 

 i-ii-li-u. 'li^LiLi Ih. Ktuthrr north ure some eomiuutiilies from the Sulu 

 Arehip'd.igo, who formerly held a eoiistiJerabhi tract of country about Cape 

 I.'iis:iii«, :trei whose silLLhi'i till reirntly claimed jurwdie?ioit over Unit part 



of the Uftn/dL 



But the mt>*t i rn v Ttant intruder- an- the t "liiui— i-, wim an- found 

 in i'lrry eentre nf |. ij.,iI,l1:..u crude rs, miners, iiieuhnnii.^, >«r 

 agricUiLiiri,*tX They nre mast numerous in the western district*, 

 where gold and diamonds are found, and there arc mid to be nearly 

 350,000 in the Butch terrii»rie* alum-. The trade nf Poitti&imk, 

 iJ-iiij-r-Mnsin, Sarawak, Xurth Borneo, mid Labium is to a great 

 extent in their hand*. But from uld rernrd.- of travel, the north- 

 eastern districts would seem nt am time to hnve been even morn 

 permanently occupied by the Chinese limn nt present. 



Political DivifiioaA.— Politically Borncu \» distributed in very 

 Unequal proportions amongst the Dutch, British, and natives as 

 under * 



DCTCH POSSESSIONS IS BORNEO, 



The Dutch claim sovereignty over the greater part of the island, 

 including the whole region south of a line drawn from Sarawak 

 m irth- eastward* tn the h>hm' nf the Sibuko river, about 4" X. lat., 

 and thence eastwards to the coast a little above that parallel. Their 

 possessions are divided administratively into the three refudentshipa, 

 of PonliStnukj BiLnjer-lIa'tiij ami tliu Be H i L- i n rl<r|if iiclk-i l I Stat" nf 

 Kutei T with the usual system of rcsidentiil government over the coast 

 districts id the west and south. But pndiably not more than ouc- 

 [jflii nf this r.-j:. u i« iiiuh-r liieir iliuvt mtithd, a gtvat pari of thi* 

 interior being unoccupied and even unexpired. 



Fontiftn&k. — In this residency are comprised the western dU- 

 triets of Sambas, Montrado, Sintang, and Puntiauuk proper. The 

 town of Pantidnak, which lies on the west coast under the equator, i* 



