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many incredible details respecting their habits, that I was 
led to consider the whole as fabulous ; and the subject is 
treated in this light in the narrative of my voyageSj which 
was published soon after my retui'n to England in the 
followiug year.* 
During a second visit to the Archipelago, my attention 
was chiefly directed to the more eastern islands, where 
thii field was comparatively new^ and I had no opportunity 
of obtaining farther information respecting the interior of 
Borneo until when again on my return to England in 
1845. One of my fellow-passengers on tbat occasion 
was Captain Brownrigg, whose ship, the 'Premier* of 
Belfast, had been wrecked on the east coast of Borneo 
during the previous year, when the European portion of 
the crew found refuge with the Uajah Mudah of Gunung 
Thabor, a place about fifty miles up the Bum or Knraii 
River, whence they were removed after a residence of 
several mouths by a Dutcb vessel of wai*, which had been 
* " Tlie various tribes are said to differ considerably from cacli 
other, an. assertion wliich I do not pretend to dbpute^ aitliougli my 
own experience would go to prove the contraryj dnoe I saw indi- 
vidnala belonging to seTcral diatiiict tribes^ who, with tlie esceptioii 
of a difference of dialect, might be recognised as the -sjune people^ 
those who ]ivcd cntirclj on the wixtcT being much darker than the 
test. It is said hj the Dyaks themselves, that some parts of the 
interior are inhabited by a wooBy-haired people ; but as they also 
assert that men with tails like monkeys, and hving in trees, arc also 
discoverable, the acenracy of their acconnts may be doubted. 1 met 
with no Djak who hjid seen either, but as a woolly-haired people is 
to be found scattered over tLe interior of the Malay Peninsula, 
their existence m Borneo seems by no means improbable.'* — " The 
Eastern Seas/* p. 235. 
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