Word: sarawak
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...than 100 years ago Jamie Brooke of Coombe Grove, England sailed off to work for the East India Co. When his wealthy father died Jamie bought what he called a yacht, stocked it with arms and set off pirateering for Borneo. Since he ended up as the Rajah of Sarawak in Borneo and was knighted by Queen Victoria there is nothing shameful in the story of Little Boy Brooke except court evidence which convinced almost every one except his British judges that he had practiced ruthless extortion on the natives of Sarawak after obtaining it from the Sultan of Borneo...
...stranger. His Highness the London-born white Rajah of Sarawak was received by the admirals aboard the Kent with royal honors. He obviously wanted to chat about what would happen should Japan try to seize the predominantly Dutch Island of Borneo which also contains the territories of British North Borneo and Sarawak. To Japanese the status of Sarawak might be hard to explain. They might consider it fair game since Sarawak is officially "an independent State," might not attach sufficient importance to the fact that Sarawak is also officially "under the protection of Great Britain." This tie is not weakened...
Born. To Senator Robert Marion LaFollette of Wisconsin, and to Rachel Young LaFollette; a son (7 lb. 14 oz.); in Washington. Engaged. Leonora Brooke. 21, daughter of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, white Raja of Sarawak (northwestern Borneo); and Kenneth Mackay, 2nd Earl of Inch- cape, 45, son of the late Lord Inchcape, shipping tycoon, brother of the Hon. Elsie Mackay who was lost in an attempted transatlantic flight in 1928. (In 1840 Trader James Brooke, great-uncle of Sir Charles, helped the Sultan of Borneo's uncle put down a rebellion, got the Raj of Sarawak in return.) Married...
...Khair-ul-Nissa, Fairest of Women." Then he sat down with his convert to a grilled chop & boiled potato. When Daughter Gladys of the late Sir Walter Palmer (Huntley & Palmers) married His Highness the Tuan Muda Bertram Willes Dayrell Brooke, brother and heir presumptive of the Raja of Sarawak,* in 1904 she was a Protestant. Later she became a Christian Scientist, then a Catholic. Owner of the tunic of Mohammed himself (valued at $1,750,000), she decided to embrace his religion, chose the air for the ceremony "because I wished it to be performed on no earthly territory...
...century ago James Brooke left home, stocked a vessel with arms, took up piracy. Off the coast of Sarawak, rich province in northern Borneo, 800 mi. due east of Singapore, he stopped to rescue a beleaguered Sultan. The first thing the Sultan knew James Brooke was Raja of Sarawak. When Queen Victoria heard about his feat she knighted him. Present Raja, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, is his grand-nephew...