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THIS WORK
IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
TO
||is tlye ^ajay of ^arafoal:
(SIR CHARLES A. JOHNSON-BROOKE)
G. C. M. G., K. I.; Etc; Etc;
whose
UNEQUALLED KNOWLEDGE OF THE NATIVE CHARACTER, WHOSE
PERSONAL EXERTIONS, HUMANE, AND WISE RULE HAVE ENABLED
HIM TO PUT AN END TO TRIBAL WARFARE AMONG THE SEA DYAKS
AND ASSURED THEM OF THE BLESSINGS OF PEACE AND PROSPER-
ITY WITHIN THEIR BORDERS WHEREBY THEY HAVE ADVANCED
IN THE SCALE OF CIVILIZATION AND NOW OCCUPY A POSITION
SECOND TO NONE AMONG THE NATIVES OF BORNEO. |
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