Evans, I: Among Primitive Peoples in Borneo

Excerpt from Among Primitive Peoples in Borneo: A Description of the Lives, Habits and Customs of the Piratical Head-Hunters of North Borneo, With an Account of Interesting Objects of Prehistoric Antiquity Discovered in the Island

Borneo, the second largest island in the world, which 18 hazily connected by the crowd with the existence of wild men, lies, roughly speaking, south of the Philippines, with Java to the south, Celebes to the east, Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula to the west, while the Equator cuts almost through the centre.

About two-thirds of the whole island, comprising the two Residencies of south-east and West Borneo, is under Dutch rule. The remainder is divided into three states: Sarawak, which occupies a long strip of territory on the west coast and has an English ruler (raja Brooke); British North Borneo, governed by a Chartered Company, towards the northern end of the island; and the little native state of Brunei, wedged between these two, which have both eu riched themselves at her expense. The last-named is now protected by Great Britain and administered by officers of the Straits Settlements Civil Service.

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