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...announced from California that he had changed his mind: "Since the war began, I have felt that I could not go on being a pacifist. If I were young enough to fight I would do so." Visiting in England, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, "White Rajah" of Sarawak (Northwestern Borneo), contributed 1,000,000 Malayan Straits dollars (about $470,000) to help the British Government...
Johnson virtually told a serialized story of their adventures for 25 years in the South Seas, Africa, Borneo. But because Osa Johnson also makes a companionate idyl of their life together, many a reader will agree that their adventures are worth telling twice...
Although Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, white Raja of Sarawak, British protectorate in northwest Borneo, has the power of life & death over 500,000 brown-skinned subjects, he has never been able to establish much discipline over his own family. Ever since Privateer Jamie Brooke, of Coombe Grove, England, "persuaded" the Sultan of Brunei to give him an East Indian kingdom in 1841, the Brookes have been a strong ruling dynasty. Sir Charles (grandnephew of Jamie) modestly records in the British Who's Who that he has "led several expeditions into the far interior of the country to punish headhunters...
...school, hung out his shingle in Brooklyn. Interested by the plans for Peary's Arctic expedition of 1891, he volunteered, was accepted. Later Cook went on a Belgian Antarctic expedition and won the admiration of Roald Amundsen. Cook's other expeditions were to Greenland, Alaska, Mount Everest, Borneo. He was rated a popular and able explorer...
...Netherlands has the richest share: Sumatra, Java, the Celebes, most of Borneo, half of Timor and of New Guinea...