A History of Sarawak under Its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
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A History of Sarawak under Its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908
Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
Charles, Rajah of Sarawak, 1829-1917; James, Rajah of Sarawak, 1803-1868; Sarawak (Malaysia) -- History
The above are abridged extracts. The last two sultans were not included
in Low's list, which was made in 1893. Low's spelling of the names is
followed.
Forrest, _op. cit._, who obtained his information from Mindanau records,
states that about 1475 a Sherip Ali and his two brothers came from
Mecca. Ali became the first Muhammadan prince in Mindanau; one brother
became King of Borneo (Bruni) and the other King of the Moluccas. As
regards the date this agrees with the Bruni records, and the brothers
might have borne the same name. (See Mahomet Ali, Omar Ali above.)
According to Chinese records, a Chinese is said to have been King of
Bruni in the beginning of the 15th century.[77] This would have been in
Ong Sum Ping's time, and it probably refers to him.
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Footnote 44:
Named by the Spaniards Mount St. Paul according to Pigafetta. J. Hunt
gives St. Peter's Mount in his _Sketch of Borneo_, 1812, and a map by
Mercator published in about 1595 gives St. Pedro, and old maps of
subsequent dates also give the latter name.
Footnote 45:
But Mr. C. Vernon-Collins, of the Sarawak Civil Service, recently
found a bead which has been pronounced at the British Museum to have
been made in Venice prior to A.D. 1100. A similar one of the same date
was presented by H.H. the Ranee to the British Museum some years ago.
It is a bead highly esteemed by the Kayans.
Footnote 46:
"Book of the Descent," Sir Hugh Low.—_Journal of the Straits Branch of
the R.A.S._, No. 5.
Footnote 47:
Jewata is the Land-Dayak name of a god from the Sanskrit word
_dewata_, divinity, deity, gods. The Sea-Dyaks also have Jewata in
their mythology, likewise Batara, from the Sanskrit _bhatar_, holy;
neither means God, as some writers appear to think. The Dayaks have no
idea of theism.
Footnote 48:
The late Rajah has recorded a tradition of several of the Land-Dayak
tribes that in the old times they were under the government of Java,
and their tribute was regularly sent there.
Footnote 49:
The title assumed by the rulers of Majapahit, from "Bhatara," noted
above.
Footnote 50:
According to Crawfurd. Sir Stamford Raffles gives 1475.
Footnote 51:
Formerly a monarchy whose jurisdiction comprehended all Sumatra, and
whose sovereign was talked of with respect in the farthest parts of
the East.—Marsden's _History of Sumatra_.
Footnote 52:
Lima is a small town on the north coast of Portugal.
Footnote 53:
Sir Hugh Low, _Book of the Descent_, _op. cit._
Footnote 54:
See note 2, p. 45.
Footnote 55:
_A Collection of Voyages_, 1729, Dampier.
Footnote 56:
_Idem._
Footnote 57:
Forrest's _Voyage to New Guinea_, 1779.
Footnote 58:
_Sarawak_, Hugh Low, 1848.
Footnote 59:
Hunt, _op. cit._
Footnote 60:
Dias, in 1487.
Footnote 61:
"Antiquity of Chinese Trade," J. R. Logan in the _Journal of the
Indian Archipelago_, 1848.
Footnote 62:
Forrest, _op. cit._
Footnote 63:
Logan, _op. cit._
Footnote 64:
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