Putatan District, North Borneo,1884
Putatan District, North Borneo,1884
This flourishing and extensive district which on the 1st May
1884 passed under the rule of The
British North Borneo Government, may be briefly described as an alluvial plain
bounded to the southward by some salient spurs thrown off by the coast range of
mountains to the westward, to the north by the mountains dividing it from the watershed of the Inanam
river,and to the north-west by low ranges and detached hills running parallel
with the coast, from Tanjong Liadan (Dusun, "Pangalat" and
"Kalat”) opposite Gaya, to the base of the sandy promontory of Tanjong Aru
( Dusun, "Torongo " ).