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The enormous island of Borneo² is situated towards the north-west of the Celebes and nearly due east of Sumatra. In size it is seven times that of Java and larger than France. The bulk of the inhabitants are Dyaks, closely affiliated with the Malays. ‘The Dyaks are generally of sturdy build and splendid physique, but ugly of face and thorough savages in mental and moral character.’³ It is notorious as the ‘land of the wild Dyak, the orang-utan, and the great constrictor snakes, the land of vast impenetrable jungle and mosquito-infested swamps.’⁴