British North Borneo: An Account of its History, Resources and Native Tribes

ALTHOUGH Sir West Ridgeway, the chairman of the British North Borneo Company, contributes a preface to this volume, it is in no sense an official publication. This will be appreciated by those who are conversant with recent criticisms of the company's methods of administration. The author is both fair and unbiassed. The story of North Borneo is not without stirring incident. In the last century its coast was infested with pirates, whose extermination was first undertaken seriously in 1845 at the instigation of Rajah Brooke of Sarawak. Their subjugation was completed only in 1879, the year the British North Borneo Company was formed. Of the numerous native risings with which the company has had to deal, the most formidable was that headed by the redoubtable Mat Saleh, who was defeated and killed in 1899.British North Borneo: An Account of its History, Resources and Native Tribes.By Owen Rutter. Pp. xvi + 404 + plates. (London, Bombay, and Sydney: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1922.) 21s. net.