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Excerpt from A Visit to the Indian Archipelago, in H. M. Ship M ander, Vol. 2 of 2: With Portions of the Private Journal of Sir James Brooke, K. C. B Before leaving the coast, I may as well give a short account of the then state of things at Sarawak. I have already referred to the reasons which first induced Sir James Brooke to accept the Rajahship it has been seen how he entered upon the organisation of a. Refractory or distressed population of about 8000 souls, taking to his assistance the leading rebel chiefs. Sarawak or Kuching, as it was then called, was a village. By internal war the bonds of society had been loosened the Dyaks driven into the jungle. Government was at an end; rapine and crime of all kinds were of daily occurrence - trade was literally extinct. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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