THE ISLAND OF BORNEO

Known to foreigners as country of ‘Head Hunters’, divided in 2 parts, the north under British rule called British North Borneo now part of Malaysia (Sabah and Sarawak) with the south by Dutch rule called Kalimantan, handed over to Indonesia when Sukarno took over.

Another small state, Brunei sits between Sarawak with Sabah on the north. These three countries covers the northern part of Borneo, with the larger undeveloped part by Indonesia in the south.

SARAWAK

The third and last Rajah, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, succeeded his farther in 1917.

Charles Vyner Brooke transferred his rights from Brunei to the British Crown; Sarawak became a Crown Colony on July 1^st 1946.

Miri was a remote kampong nestled between Sarawak and Brunei, one must picture into a very different past, only atap houses and shops existed when the Shell people arrived.

Fresh meat was wild boar, buffalo, venison, monkeys, wild fowls and lots of flying foxes with fish from the rivers we even get crocodile meat and certainly snakes.

Miri has been wrested from the jungle and was only held on sufferance from it. Wild pigs and Mouse Dears used to run wild, always roaming near our house.