The mere statistics are appalling. It was estimated, in 1840, that one hundred thousand men made freebooting their trade. One single chief had under control seven hundred prahus. Whole tribes, whole groups of islands, almost whole races, despising even the semblance of honest industry, depended upon rapine for a livelihood. "It is difficult to catch fish, but it is easy to catch Borneans," said the Soloo pirates scornfully; and, acting upon that principle, they fitted out their fleets and planned their voyages with all the method of honest tradesmen.

 

Denne blog er af en dansker i en fjern udkant af verden paa Borneos skovklaedte Oestkyst, hvor stadig Borneo Pygmy Elefanter, Skovnaesehorn, krokodiller, flyvende hunde og naesehornsfugle strejfer.
Og hvor en livlig blanding af Malajer, kinesere, dusuner, bajauer, edaaner, dayaker, sulukker, muruter, sea-gypsies, bugis, indere, filippinere, indonesere, europaere incl. et par danskere lever i et multikulturel, multietnisk dagligdag.
Herfra ser mange af de ting som foregaar hjemme i Danmark ofte ganske surrealistiske ud.

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New school Asia 2.

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