The Archive · 1886

NORTH BORNEO

Tu an account of Bundu district in Province Dent, North Borneo, we find the following account of a Chinese descended people living there Situated about 26 miles from the British Island of Labuan, the flourish of Bundu in Province Dent tion from its many peculiar and interes characteristics, In no other part of Bri North Borneo have we met a community descendents of Chinese, who wh ill wearing positive pig-table have gra ally abandoned the ancient teaching idols and pictures of the Good and Kvli Spirits which are peculiar to Chins, Mot of them have sacrificed their Chinese names, and rejoice in Malay titles and names conferred on them and on former generations by the Sultan and chiefs of and very few of th speak inese dialect, The chiefs were usually thieves during this and the last couturie In Groat Britain the present bearers of

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