MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES, CONTRIBUTIONS AND 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
LETTERS FROM THE INTERIOR OF BORNEO (WEST COAST.) 
NO. I. 
Karangan, 1 1th Dec. 1847.* 
I have to thank you, and I do it heartily, for the Nos. of your de¬ 
sirable periodical for July and August; if the same polite attention 
has intended any subsequent No. for my possession, I am, to this 
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date, a loser. As various causes have conspired to deprive me for 
the last 8 days almost wholly of rest, and as I know not at what 
moment I may be called to make up my parcel for the coast, I can¬ 
not confidently promhe myself the pleasure of discharging, in any 
degree as I could wish, the obligation you have undesignedly impos¬ 
ed. The “ Spirit of thanks”, however, never 7'epudiates , and, 
though extreme weariness be upon me, I send you a few notices of 
the site of our Mission, fondly designated “ Forest Home”. Three 
years since, a very interesting sketch of our premises was made by 
the late Mrs. Thomson, within four weeks of her decease, and I re¬ 
gret that I have no copy and cannot supply its place. The spot from 
which I write is called by the Dyaks “ Oto”, and the fruit-trees of our 
gardens will, in years to come, wave their tops in rivalry and almost 
direct contact with the magnificent old monarehs of the natives’ Ti- 
mawakf or Timbawang of that name. The village-house of the 
Dyaks has once been within a few rods, but they often change their 
place of residence (there have been two changes within 4 years, in 
the case of our next neighbours), and the names of villages, i. e. of 
different camping-spots for the same sets of families, are constantly 
going out of use, as new spots are built upon and named ; probably, 
however, in many cases, it is but a re-occupancy, by the sons, of 
what the fathers had once similarly used and left. 
* We received this letter on the 25th. of February. A subsequent one 
from the same correspondent reached us much sooner. We did not notice 
it in our last number as we were not then in possession of the writer’s name. 
We shall have much pleasure in presenting a copy oftbc Journal to the gen¬ 
tleman mentioned by our correspondent.—E d. 
L Orchard or fruit garden. 
Vol II. No. III. March 1848, 
