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Title: Strange peoples & customs
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Evans, Adelaide Bee
Subjects: Children Missions
Publisher: Mountain View, Calif., Pacific Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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dealof money to Borneo. Many of the Chinese who came to Borneoin the early days decided to stay on in thisbeautiful, warm, quiet island. They marriednative women, and their children knew noother home. In later years great numbers ofChinese have come to work on the rubber andcoconut and tobacco plantations that English-men are planting. For the Chinese are greatworkers, and work is one thing that the na-tives of Borneo, as well as other Malays, donot like a bit. So we find in Borneo maiiyChinese who are well-to-do. Away from the coast, and in very manyplaces along the coast, Borneo is a greatjungle. In its deep valleys and on the sidesof its high mountains are wonderful forestsof hard and soft woods. But it is not easy tobring this timber, which is so valuable and somuch needed, to the coast; for there are noroads, and no railways to speak of. A GREAT MOUNTAIN Kinabalu is the name of a high mountain inBritish North Borneo. It is said that partof this name comes from a Chinese word and
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(294) BEAUTIFUL BORNEO 295 part from a Malay word, and that this showshow long the Chinese have been in Borneo.Kinabalu is nearly fourteen thousand feethigh, or more than a thousand feet higher thanFujisan, the famous mountain of Japan. But while the top of Fujisan is coveredwith snow, the top of Kinabalu, though somuch higher, rarely has a sprinkle on it.From the sea the sides of this mountain lookgreen and beautiful; its top is often hiddenin clouds. Sometimes it peeps out far abovethem. Many valuable things are found in Borneo;and many more will be found, if men comeand look for them, and work for them. Thou-sands of rubber trees and thousands of coco-nut trees have been planted, so that there maybe rubber tires for the worlds automobiles,and cooking oil in the worlds kitchens. Agood grade of petroleum has been found, too,and some coal. Then there is cutch, which isa sort of dye used for khaki, and pepper, andtobacco, and camphor. A great deal of sagocomes from Borneo, too. In the

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