vergouwen

Updated: May 18, 2025

In a factory owned by Arabs the diamonds are cut by primitive but evidently very efficient methods, since South African diamonds are sent here for treatment, because the work can be done much cheaper than in Amsterdam. The controleur, Mr. J.C. Vergouwen, said that there were 700 Dayaks in his district.

Carl Lumholtz - Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917