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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    the south, and the Orang Tedong on. the north-east coast: but all that is. related. concerning these. tribes. cor-. responds on the whole, and accidental circumstances alone seem to have pro- duced some diversities and deviations.. They all resemble each other.in person, complexion and manners. The story that the Idahoos are de- scended from Chinese is, but a fiction : so also is the tradition concerning an ancient monarchy founded by the Chi- nese in Borneo, and which is said to have extended over the neighbouring islands. Respecting the manner in which Borneo was peopled by the Chinese the following legend only has been pre- served:—A King of China, having