BORNEO. 
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the documents contain in g the reports of government 
o£Ecers who have been despatched from time to time to 
make researches on the east coast of the island^ as Dr. 
Roorda Van Eysinga, Professor of Oriental Languages 
and Geography to the Royal Military Academy of Hol- 
landj states in his " Geography of Netherlands^ ludia/^ 
that " In the inaccessible parts of the island (Borneo) 
Papuans yet reside in a savage state, bordering upon 
that of wild beasts."* No authorities are quoted in 
the work, but as it is used as a class-book thi-oughout the 
Netherlands, it cannot be supposed that the statement 
has been loosely made- 
* "Ten zuideu van liet koningrijk Borneo wonen de wildeu 
volkssttmimen, Doesoema, Kajans eu Maroets genaamd. In het 
outoegimkclijk gedcelte van liet eiland woneu nog Papoeaas in team 
staat van wildlieid, dewelke aaii diea der wildc dicren grenst." — 
" Aardrijkbeschrijvirt^ van Kcderlondscli Indie," p. 70. 
