sebongan

Updated: January 17, 2026

Cases are not unknown of whole villages being compelled to remove to a distance, owing to the presence of a number of man-eating crocodiles in a particular bend of a river; this happened to the village of Sebongan on the Kinabatangan River, which has been quite abandoned.

Sir W. H. (William Hood) Treacher - British Borneo: Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo