Plate 2 (face pg. 2) from C.Hose / W.McDougall (1912): The Pagan Tribes of Borneo.
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Title: The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Hose, Charles, 1863-1929 McDougall, William, 1871-1938 Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort), 1855-1940
Subjects: Ethnology Anthropometry
Publisher: London : Macmillan and co., limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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h-west corner is estimated at 700 miles. Althoughthe point of intersection of the two principal moun-tain chains lies almost exactly midway between thenorthern and southern and the eastern and westernextremities of the island, the greater width of thesouthern half of the island gives a longer course tothe rivers of that part, in spite of the fact that allthe six principal rivers mentioned above have theirsources not far from this central point. The prin-cipal rivers thus radiate from a common centre, theBatang Kayan flowing east-north-east, the Koteisouth-east by east, the Banjermasin south, theKapuas a little south of west, the Rejang west, andthe Baram north-west. This radiation of the riversfrom a common centre is a fact of great importancefor the understanding of the ethnography of theisland, since the rivers are the great highways whichmovements of the population chiefly follow. In almost all parts of the island, the land adjoin-ing the coast is a low-lying swampy belt consisting
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GEOGRAPHY OF BORNEO 3 of the alluvium brought down by the many riversfrom the central highlands. This belt of alluviumextends inland in many parts for fifty miles or more,and is especially extensive in the south and south-east of the island. Between the swampy coast belt and the mountainsintervenes a zone of very irregular hill country, ofwhich the average height above the sea-level isabout one thousand feet, with occasional peaks risingto five or six thousand feet or more. There seems good reason to believe that at acomparatively recent date Borneo was continuouswith the mainland of Asia, forming its south-easternextremity. Together with Sumatra and Java itstands upon a submarine bank, which is nowheremore than one hundred fathoms below the surface,but which plunges down to a much greater depthalong a line a little east of Borneo (Wallaces line).The abundance of volcanic activity in the archi-pelago marks it as a part of the earths crust liable tochanges of elevation, and the accumul

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