. The sea road to the East, Gibraltar to Wei-hai-wei; six lectures. Copyright .SlT />«?( 91. Market Boats, Copyright. A Street in Brunei. [See page 91. THE MALAY REGION 97 lands ; but all came to nothing, so that the early historydoes not concern us here. One trace of former conditionsremained in the nineteenth century, in the claims ofHolland in the south of the island and of Spain in thenorth. These claims were revived at the time of our occu-pation and were not finally settled until the late eightiesof the nineteenth century. The modern history of theregion begins with the acqui
. The sea road to the East, Gibraltar to Wei-hai-wei; six lectures. Copyright .SlT />«?( 91. Market Boats, Copyright. A Street in Brunei. [See page 91. THE MALAY REGION 97 lands ; but all came to nothing, so that the early historydoes not concern us here. One trace of former conditionsremained in the nineteenth century, in the claims ofHolland in the south of the island and of Spain in thenorth. These claims were revived at the time of our occu-pation and were not finally settled until the late eightiesof the nineteenth century. The modern history of theregion begins with the acquisition, by an American syndi-cate, of certain concessions in the north from the Sultansof Brunei and Sulu. Their rights were taken over ulti-mately by a British company which obtained a charter fromthe Crown, in 1881, under the title of the British NorthBorneo Company. The charter was a revival of the oldplan for opening up new countries without the direct in er-vention or responsibility of the home Government. It wasfollowed by other charters for African companies ; but ofthese only one survives, and the North B
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