hooting in
British North Borneo and returned to Hongkong entirely unsuccessful.
Dr. GUILLEMARD was misinformed. The officers were not more than a week
in the country on their way to Hongkong from Singapore and Sarawak, and
did not devote their time to sport. Some other of the author's remarks
concerning British North Borneo are somewhat incorrect and appear to
have been based on information derived from a prejudiced source.]

[Footnote 30: In 1889, the Company declared their first Dividend.]

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Transcriber's Notes:

The author's original spelling has been preserved as far as possible,
including any idiosyncrasies and inconsistencies in the spelling and
accenting of words. Changes have only been made in the case of obvious
typographical errors and where it was felt necessary to remove
ambiguity or improve readability. All changes have been documented
below.

Inconsistencies in the hypenation of words preserved. ( blood-thirsty,
bloodthirsty; head-quarters, headquarters; kina-balu, kinabalu;
kina-batangan, kinabatangan; salt-water, saltwater; sand-stone,
sandstone; sea-board, seaboard; shop-keepers, shopkeepers; war-like,
warlike)

Treatment of Blockquotes. There are several blocks of text where the
author quoted extensively from other documentary sources. In some
cases, very long paragraphs contain a mixture of the author's words and
quoted material. In order to enhance readability, the portions of text
which are quoted material have been separated out and indented as
blockquotes. This treatment has been given to:

Pg. 33-37. The block of text beginning '"When," says he....' to
'maintaining their gravity.' which was originally a single
contiguous paragraph.

Pg. 37-40, several paragraphs beginning 'Mr. Darymple's
description....' to 'Singapore is to the straits of Malacca.' The
first paragraph from 'Mr. Darymple's description....' to
'commercial enterprise' was originally a single contiguous
paragraph. This block of text is also unusual in that while
elsewhere, each new paragraph of quoted material began with a
doublequote mark, in this block, only some paragraphs do so while
others do not. This inconsistency on the part of the author has
been preserved.

Pg. 54-55, several paragraphs beginning 'Javanese element, and
Hindu work....' to 'make a stone fort."' The section from
'Javanese element, a