Sarawak
a state of Borneo, under British government, extending from Cape Datoo on the W. to the Samarahan river on the E. Area about 42,000 square miles. Coast line about 400 miles. The aboriginal inhabitants, called Dyaks, consist of various wild tribes who in 1844 took for their sovereign an Englishman, SIR JAMES BROOKE (q. v.), through whom the country is chiefly known. Pop. (1917) 600,000. Capital, Kuching.