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It is needless to say that the aborigines themselves have the haziest and most unscientific notion of their own origin, as the following account, gravely related to me by a party of Buludupihs, will exemplify: "The Origin of the Buludupih Race. In past ages a Chinese settler had taken to wife a daughter of the aborigines, by whom he had a female child.
The following are the names of some of the principal North Borneo aboriginal tribes: Kadaians, Dusuns, Ida'ans, Bisaias, Buludupihs, Eraans, Subans, Sun-Dyaks, Muruts, Tagaas.
It somewhat militates against the correctness of this history that the Buludupihs are distinguished by the absence of Mongolian features.
Of these, the Kadaians, Buludupihs, Eraans and one large section of the Bisaias have embraced the religion of Mahomet; the others are Pagans, with no set form of religion, no idols, but believing in spirits and in a future life, which they localise on the top of the great mountain of Kina-balu.
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