British Borneo - Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo

The Project Gutenberg eBook, British Borneo, by W. H. Treacher This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo Author: W. H. Treacher Release Date: December 16, 2008 [eBook #27547] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BRITISH BORNEO*** E-text prepared by a Project Gutenberg volunteer from digital material generously made available by Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://www.archive.org/details/yonderyo00gavarich BRITISH BORNEO: SKETCHES OF BRUNAI, SARAWAK, LABUAN, AND NORTH BORNEO. BY W. H. TREACHER, C.M.G., M.A. Oxon., Secretary to the Government of Perak, Formerly Administrator of Labuan and H.B.M. Acting Consul-General in Borneo, First Governor of British North Borneo. Reprinted from the Journal of the Straits Settlements Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Singapore: PRINTED AT THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING DEPARTMENT. 1891. TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Pages 1-11. The Hudson's Bay Company's Charter, 1670. British North Borneo Company's Charter, November 1881, as a territorial power. The example followed by Germany.