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THIS WORK

IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

TO

His Highness the Rajah of Sarawak

(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 PROSPER­ITY 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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