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Title: British Borneo
Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo

Author: W. H. Treacher

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Language: English

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BRITISH BORNEO:

Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo.

by

W. H. TREACHER, C.M.G., M.A. OXON.,
Secretary to the Government of Perak,
Formerly Administrator of Labuan and
H.B.M. Acting Consul-General in Borneo,
First Governor of British North Borneo.

Reprinted from the Journal of the Straits Settlements Branch
of the Royal Asiatic Society.

Singapore:
Printed at the Government Printing Department.
1891.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. PAGES 1-11.

THE Hudson's Bay Company's Charter, 1670. British North Borneo
Company's Charter, November 1881, as a territorial power. The
example followed by Germany. Borneo the second largest island in
the world. Visited by Friar Odoric, 1322, by Berthema, 1503; but
not generally known until, in 1518 Portuguese, and in 1521
Spanish, expeditions touched there. Report of Pigafetta, the
companion of Magellan, who found there a Chinese trading
community. Origin of the name Borneo; sometimes known as
Kalamantan. Spanish attack on Brunai, 1573. First Dutch
connection, 1600; first British connection, 1609. Diamonds.
Factory established by East India Company at Banjermassin, 1702,
expelled by natives. British capture of Manila, 1762, and
acquisition of Balambangan, followed by cession of Northern Borneo
and part of Palawan. Spanish claims to Borneo abandoned by
Protocol, 1885. Factory established at Balambangan, 1771, expelled
by Sulus, 1775; re-opened 1803 and abandoned the following year.
Temporary