item: #1 of 11
          id: 21238
      author: Reid, Mayne
       title: The Castaways
        date: None
       words: 49235
      flesch: 73
     summary: He took with him a stalk of bamboo, pointed at one end, to be used as a probe in the soft bottom in case any oysters might be lying _perdu_ beneath the sand. It is albumen, gluten, and other substances combined, all existing in the udder, in the egg-shell, in the seed, root, or fruit; from which springs the progeny, whether it be man or beast, flying bird or swimming fish, creeping reptile or fast-rooted forest tree.
    keywords: arms; bird; boat; body; borneo; captain; chapter; close; danger; day; death; eggs; eyes; feet; forest; fruit; ground; hand; head; helen; henry; length; malay; man; moment; murtagh; pinnace; place; redwood; saloo; sand; sea; ship; spot; strength; thought; time; tree; water; way
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        item: #2 of 11
          id: 22903
      author: Keppel, Henry, Sir
       title: The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
        date: None
       words: 173873
      flesch: 64
     summary: 'He should have died as other great men have died, and not have received such shame; he should have amoked, [20] or else given himself up for execution.' On the 18th of February the Driver arrived; on the 21st left Sarawak, and at noon of the 24th arrived at the anchorage in Borneo river, having towed the gun-boat against the N.E. monsoon.
    keywords: account; attack; bay; boats; borneo; british; brooke; captain; case; cents; character; chief; china; chinese; close; coast; country; course; crew; day; days; dido; distance; dyaks; enemy; english; evening; feet; fine; fire; force; gold; good; government; great; ground; guns; half; hand; hassim; having; head; house; interior; island; jungle; labuan; language; left; life; macota; malay; man; means; men; miles; morning; muda; native; near; new; night; number; orang; pangeran; party; people; piracy; pirates; place; point; pontiana; poor; power; present; principal; rajah; rest; return; rice; river; sakarran; sambas; sarawak; sea; seriff; ship; singapore; small; state; sultan; time; town; trade; trees; tribe; vessel; visit; war; water; way; wild; work; years; young
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        item: #3 of 11
          id: 2564
      author: Walker, H. Wilfrid
       title: Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines
        date: None
       words: 59142
      flesch: 74
     summary: Early in the afternoon we passed large villages situated amid groves of coconut palms. These latter had to pass through many small villages on the way, but the inhabitants did not wait to find out whether they were friends or foes, and the police found the villages empty.
    keywords: bamboo; birds; canoes; carriers; chief; country; day; dayaks; evening; feet; fiji; fijian; fish; forest; good; government; ground; head; house; hut; kind; lala; left; man; men; monckton; morning; natives; negritos; new; night; people; police; ratu; return; river; small; time; trees; tribe; vic; village; war; water; way; white; women
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        item: #4 of 11
          id: 26844
      author: Marryat, Frank
       title: Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery
        date: None
       words: 74731
      flesch: 69
     summary: It is not quite so easy a task as may be imagined to reform so many millions of people: for it must be remembered that it is not only at Borneo that we shall have to act, but that we must destroy the power of the sultan of Sooloo, and other tribes who frequent other islands, and who follow the same profession. After fixing the positions of several small islands in the Mendoro Sea, we steered for Samboangan, a Spanish penal colony, situated at the southern extremity of Mindanao.
    keywords: appearance; bay; board; boats; borneo; brooke; captain; chinese; coast; country; day; days; dyaks; english; evening; fire; good; guns; head; hong; house; illustration; island; kong; left; little; man; manilla; men; miles; morning; natives; night; officers; party; people; pirates; place; prahus; rajah; return; river; round; ship; shore; sincapore; sooloo; sultan; thing; time; town; vessels; village; war; water; way
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        item: #5 of 11
          id: 27801
      author: Gomes, Edwin Herbert
       title: Children of Borneo
        date: None
       words: 30241
      flesch: 81
     summary: Large crown 8vo, with eight Coloured Illustrations, cloth 1s 6d _net_ THE MOSLEM DOCTRINE OF GOD. Large crown 8vo, cloth 15s _net_ The Discourses, commonly known as the Analects, contain the sayings of the Sage as recorded by his disciples.
    keywords: 8vo; birds; book; borneo; children; cloth; crown; day; deer; dyak; dyak house; feast; food; good; head; house; illustrations; jungle; life; man; men; missionary; missions; net; people; round; siu; spirits; time; war; women; work; world; years
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        item: #6 of 11
          id: 30233
      author: Furness, William Henry
       title: Folk-lore in Borneo A Sketch
        date: None
       words: 9013
      flesch: 61
     summary: Then they decided to continue creating more men; they returned to the Kumpong tree, but they had entirely forgotten their original pattern, and how they had executed it, and they were therefore able to make only very inferior creatures, which became the ancestors of the _Maias_ Katirah Murai was married to old man _
    keywords: birds; fire; head; house; kayan; life; long; man; people; river; spirits; time; tree; water; world
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        item: #7 of 11
          id: 37215
      author: Beecham, John Charles
       title: The Argus Pheasant
        date: None
       words: 72932
      flesch: 87
     summary: By indirect reference Peter Gross obtained, piece by piece, a coherent account of the hunting trip on which the Sadonger had lost his life. Peter Gross is Named Resident 25 IV.
    keywords: batavia; blood; bulungan; captain; carver; chair; chief; chinaman; cho; controlleur; day; dyaks; excellency; eyes; face; glance; god; good; governor; half; hand; head; jungle; kapitein; koyala; left; lips; lkath; long; look; man; men; moment; muller; mynheer; mynheer gross; mynheer muller; new; paddy; people; peter gross; resident; rouse; sachsen; schouten; sea; seng; sing; slyck; smile; things; thought; time; van; van slyck; voice; way; white; woman
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        item: #8 of 11
          id: 44484
      author: Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)
       title: With the Dyaks of Borneo: A Tale of the Head Hunters
        date: None
       words: 141051
      flesch: 83
     summary: Taking Tyler by the arm, he led him to a fly which had just driven up, and having ushered him in, took the remaining vacant seat himself. But still the handles flew round rapidly, and within a short space of time Tyler, the officer, and the American mate lay in a heap upon the deck, where they were instantly pounced upon by those who had helped in the rescue.
    keywords: away; boat; captain; case; chinaman; dat; day; deck; dey; dutchman; dyaks; enemy; eyes; face; fact; feet; forest; forward; good; hand; hanns; head; help; john; jungle; know; leader; look; malays; man; marshall; massa; matter; men; moment; pirates; prahu; river; schlott; schooner; sea; set; sight; sir; sung; tale; tell; thought; time; tyler; water; way
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        item: #9 of 11
          id: 61599
      author: Burbidge, F. W. (Frederick William)
       title: The Gardens of the Sun A naturalist's journal on the mountains and in the forests and swamps of Borneo and the Sulu Archipelago
        date: None
       words: 113491
      flesch: 70
     summary: In rambling about the island one comes across fertile little gardens and groves of mangoes, mangosteen, and other fruit trees, the tenants being generally Chinamen. Cocoanut palms and other fruit trees, 550 acres; sugarcane and vegetable gardens, about 50 acres.
    keywords: air; balu; bamboo; birds; black; blue; board; boat; borneo; branches; breakfast; chinese; cloth; coast; colour; common; cool; course; cut; dark; day; days; dinner; dry; dusun; end; evening; everett; feet; ferns; fire; fish; flowers; food; foot; forest; form; fruit; gardens; good; green; ground; guides; half; head; height; high; hill; home; house; island; journey; jungle; kiau; kina; kinds; labuan; leaves; left; length; little; malays; man; men; miles; morning; mountain; native; new; night; north; nut; o'clock; open; palm; path; people; place; plants; produce; rain; red; return; rice; river; rocks; saw; sea; shot; singapore; species; specimens; stream; sultan; sulu; time; tobacco; trees; tropical; village; visit; water; way; wet; white; women; work; yellow
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        item: #10 of 11
          id: 720
      author: Conrad, Joseph
       title: Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River
        date: None
       words: 63776
      flesch: 80
     summary: Nina Almayer came through the curtained doorway followed by an old Malay woman, who busied herself in setting upon the table a plateful of rice and fish, a jar of water, and a bottle half full of genever. Almayer in his quality of white man--as Lingard before him--had somewhat better relations with the up-river tribes.
    keywords: abdulla; ali; almayer; babalatchi; canoe; dain; daughter; day; eyes; face; father; girl; great; half; hand; head; heart; house; lakamba; life; light; look; man; master; men; mrs; nina; rajah; river; round; sambir; saw; table; thought; time; tuan; verandah; voice; water; way; white; woman; words
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        item: #11 of 11
          id: 7489
      author: Lumholtz, Carl
       title: Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917
        date: None
       words: 133462
      flesch: 70
     summary: If any one with the hope of possibly finding a new species of mammal should care to follow the matter up, Kelasin on the Upper Barito would not be an extremely difficult place to reach, with good men. During the night much fish was obtained even as far down the river as our kampong, and many men searched for it here, using as lamps petroleum in bamboo with a piece of cloth for a wick.
    keywords: account; afternoon; animal; antoh; bamboo; birds; blian; borneo; case; chapter; chief; children; country; customs; cut; day; dayaks; days; dead; dutch; eat; expedition; father; feast; fish; food; good; ground; half; head; home; hours; house; hunting; journey; jungle; kampong; kapala; katingan; kayan; kayan river; kenyahs; left; long; mahakam; making; malay; man; men; metres; morning; mother; natives; near; new; night; number; oma; order; penihings; penyahbongs; people; pig; place; prahus; rain; raja; rattan; return; rice; river; saputans; small; tent; time; tree; tribes; upper; utan; water; way; white; wife; women; work; years
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