February 25. Aursoucn the British North Borneo Company is a commercial concern, its periodical meetings have attaching to them a broader interest than is lent to the proceedings of most other money-making enterprises. The Company lineal descendant of the old-associations of adventurers—usin; the term in its truer, if antic ated significance—which, equipped with a Royal Charter and s supreme confidence in their power to wrest wealth from strange and little-known—_ land: carried British prestige farther and more rapidly afield than would have been possible to official expeditions of colonization or of congnest. Although actuated primarily by the desire of gain, they became the advance
avowedly commercial char-of civilization and, while acter Inlled the jealousy of the
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