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The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido

Note 3 — APPENDIX. (continued 2)

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“The Orang Kaya likewise told me that formerly there were twenty-five families in his tribe, but now they were reduced to fifteen, the rest having been seized and sold into slavery! (Here follow other complaints. The dayʼs journal concludes thus:)—The Sinkaru Dyaks have not yet returned to their former Tumbawong,3 but are scattered about in the jungle and very poorly off. I told them to return to their former place of residence, and to collect the tribes there.

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