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The localities at present in favour with tobacco planters are Marudu Bay and Banguey Island in the North, Labuk Bay and Darvel Bay in the neighbourhood of the Silam Station, and the Kinabatangan River on the East.
There are other interesting series of caves, and one that of Madai, in Darvel Bay on the East coast was visited by the late Lady BRASSEY and Miss BRASSEY in April, 1887, when British North Borneo was honoured by a visit of the celebrated yacht the Sunbeam, with Lord BRASSEY and his family on board.
In the Government Experimental Garden at Silam, in Darvel Bay, cocoa, cinnamon and Liberian coffee have been found to do remarkably well. Sappan-wood and kapok or cotton flock also grow freely. Many people have a very erroneous idea of the objects and intentions of the British North Borneo Company.
'My dear, you are welcome to Aylmer Park. This was so much better, that the kindness expressed though there was nothing special in it brought a tear into Clara's eye, and almost made her love Sir Anthony. 'By the by, Sir Anthony, have you seen Darvel? Darvel was wanting to see you especially about Nuggins.
On the East Coast, there are no buffaloes or horned cattle, so that the Bajows there have, or I should say had, to be content with kidnapping only, and as an example of their daring I may relate that in, I think, the year 1875, the Austrian Frigate Friederich, Captain Baron OESTERREICHER, was surveying to the South of Darvel Bay, and, running short of coal, sent an armed party ashore to cut firewood.
"Ah! that's no joke now, I can tell you," said the earl. "We had to sell him, and it half broke my heart. We don't know what had come to him, but he became quite unruly after that; knocked Darvel down in the straw-yard! It was a very bad business, a very bad business, indeed! Come, go and dress. Do you remember how you came down to dinner that day? I shall never forget how Crofts stared at you.
And, towering as high as the gallows, painted green as to its coat and limbs, but gilt in the helmet and brandishing a great spear, was the image called David Darvel Gatheren that the Papist Welsh adored. This image had been brought there that, in its burning, it might consume the friar Forest.
Ropes from the figure's neck ran out and tightened some among the crowd began to sing the song against Welsh Papists that ran 'David Darvel Gatheren As sayeth the Welshmen Fetched outlaws out of hell! and the burden of it rose so loud that the image swayed over and fell unheard. At that too a silence fell, and presently there came the sound of axes chopping.
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