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Updated: May 20, 2025
Well aware of all these circumstances, Captain Redwood knew the danger he and his party would incur should they fall into the hands of the Lanoons. So long as they were out upon the open sea, and in fear of perishing by starvation, they had never had a thought about pirates.
He had scarcely got into an erect attitude when his body was embraced by a series of spiral annulations that extended from head to foot huge thick rings, slimy and clammy to the touch, which he knew to be the foldings of the python. Had there been any Lanoons, or Dyak pirates, within a mile's distance, they might have heard the cry that escaped him.
They are usually known as "Lanoons," from Illanon, the southern peninsula of Mindanao, their principal place of refuge and residence. But they have also other haunts and ports where they make rendezvous many on the shores of the Celebes Sea, in the island of Celebes itself, and also along the eastern and northern coast of Borneo.
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