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Updated: May 16, 2025
We followed the small river Brani, most of the time wading it. Our friend, the Saputan chief, had materially assisted us, and he was desired to walk down to his kampong by boat only an hour's journey on the swift current and bring men and prahus to take us away. He was very willing and exceedingly efficient, but he was also, in his childish way, intent on making as much out of us as possible.
The charts, however, mark this capital "Borneo Proper," or in other words, the only place properly Borneo: this is the only confession of this misnomer that I have met with among Europeans. The natives pronounce Borneo, Bruni, and say it is derived from the word Brani, courageous; the aboriginal natives within this district having ever remained unconquered.
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