Borneo
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Kina Balu from Pinokok Valley — T. Picken, lith. Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1862 — Wikimedia Commons, public domain
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North Borneo Herald
1885
Earliest records
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THE
British North Borneo Herald,
AND Official Gazette.
No. VIII.—Vol. III. SANDAKAN,
WEDNESDAY, 1st APRIL, 1885.
THE articles on "Brunei" which have appeared
in the last two numbers of this paper, we were in
hopes of being able to continue in this issue, but
owing to unavoidable circumstances, we are com-
pelled to postpone the continuation in question
until our next number.
Ed. B. N. B. Herald.
A TRIP TO THE SPANISH SETTLEMENTS
IN THE SULU ARCHIPELAGO.
( Contributed. )
I left Sandakan in the s. s. Banca, 235 tons,
commanded by Captain Scharlau, on the 7th
March 1885, for Tawi Tawi, a long island on
the east of North Borneo, and arrived the
next day, after nineteen hours steam, at
Bongao at the south end of the island...
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