Volume 2

The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl.

Date:
[1821-1827?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    commanded an English East Indiaman and visited the south coast in 1713, remarked, that the many terrible stories concerning the ferocity and cruelty of the inhabitants of the interior were pro- bably but fictions, invented for the pur- pose. of discouraging travellers and de-. terring them from farther inquiries. 3 Hence our accounts of the natives of Borneo are very imperfect. . They must be divided generally into the aboriginal inhabitants and the settlers on the coasts. The former belong to the Haraforas, who, together with the Pa- puas seem to have originally peopled _ all these eastern islands. Several tribes indeed are enumerated by name; as’ the Idahoos in the north, the Biadjos in