. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. y kingdom of Singaporein 1160 , who reigned in that island for forty-eight years, and whose descendants became the royalfamily of Malacca. The Arab Sultan who succeeded Akhmed as-sumed the name Berkat and ruled the country withvigour. He built a mosque and converted manyof his subjects, so that from his reign Bruni maybe considered a Mohammedan town. To defendthe capital he sank forty junks filled with stone inthe river, and thus formed the breakw
. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. y kingdom of Singaporein 1160 , who reigned in that island for forty-eight years, and whose descendants became the royalfamily of Malacca. The Arab Sultan who succeeded Akhmed as-sumed the name Berkat and ruled the country withvigour. He built a mosque and converted manyof his subjects, so that from his reign Bruni maybe considered a Mohammedan town. To defendthe capital he sank forty junks filled with stone inthe river, and thus formed the breakwater whichstill bars the entrance to large ships. This workrose above the water level, and in former timesbristled with cannon. Sultan Berkat was succeededby his son Suleiman, whose reign was of littleconsequence. Neglecting Suleiman, we come now to the mostheroic figure in Bruni history. Sultan Bulkiah, betterknown by his earlier name, Nakoda Ragam. Theprowess of this prince has been celebrated in proseand verse. He journeyed to distant lands, andconquered the Sulu islands and eastern the throne of Sambas he set a weak-minded. HISTORY OF BORNEO 21 brother of his own. He even sent an expeditionto Manila, and on the second attempt seized thatplace. Tribute poured into his coffers from allsides. His wife was a Javanese princess, whobrought many people to Bruni. These intermarriedwith the Bisayas, and from them it is said aresprung the Kadayans, a quiet agricultural folk,skilled in various arts, but rendered timid by con-tinual oppression. Some have settled recently inthe British colony of Labuan, and others in Sarawakround the river Sibuti, where they have becomeloyal subjects of the Rajah of Sarawak. Nakoda Ragams capital at Buang Tawa was ondry land, but when he died, killed accidentally byhis wifes bodkin, the nobles quarrelled amongthemselves, and some of them founded the presentpile-built town of Bruni. It was to this Malaycapital and court that Pigafetta paid hi
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