. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. Battaks—Banca and Billiton—Bali—Lombok—The Dutch in Borneo—Sir James Brooke in Sarawak—Labuan—British North Borneo—Brunei—Dyak houses-Character and ornaments — War costume and weapons —Head-hunting —Superstitions—Celebes—The Bugis and Macassars—The Moluccas—The Sulus—The Philippine Islands—TheTagals, Bisayans, etc.—The Aetas. N respect of natural products, tlie MalayArchipela
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. Battaks—Banca and Billiton—Bali—Lombok—The Dutch in Borneo—Sir James Brooke in Sarawak—Labuan—British North Borneo—Brunei—Dyak houses-Character and ornaments — War costume and weapons —Head-hunting —Superstitions—Celebes—The Bugis and Macassars—The Moluccas—The Sulus—The Philippine Islands—TheTagals, Bisayans, etc.—The Aetas. N respect of natural products, tlie MalayArchipelago is certainly unsurpassedby any of tlie most favoured regions ofThe Malay ^^ world. Nor can it be saidArchipelago, to be altogether ill-favoured asto its human population; although it in-cludes many savage tribes, many deceitfuland murderous people, it has been and isthe seat of considerable civiUsations ; andthe most advanced Malays compare notunfavourably even with the true relationship, however, is withMALAY. the Chinese and other Mongoloid peoples, jMr. Wallace having sometimes found it impossible to distinguish between Chinese and Malays when dressed THE MALAYS. 881 A rich archipelago like this was certain to be pounced upon byEuropean traders, who soon developed_iiito colonists and we find Malaysia parcelled out among the Dutch, Spa- Europeanniards, Portuguese, and English. The Dutch possess the ma- of the islands from Sumatra to the Aru islands, adjacent to NewGuinea, and have in past times derived from them that wealth whichrendered the Netherlanders far richer than they could be by merelycultivating their own country. The civilisation which the HinduDutch found, both in Sumatra and in Java, was of Hindu civilisation,origin, probably dating back more than a thousand years. In bothislands there are considerable remains of splendid Hindu temples androyal palaces, astonishing for t
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