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The Zulu Republic: Brooke

SARAWAK.- The Sarawak territory lies on the N.-W. coast of Borneo, with a seaboard of 380 m., an area of about 30,000 sq. m., and a population of about 240,000, composed of various races. The government of this district was obtained in 1842 from the Sultan of Borneo by the late Sir James Brooke, who became well known as Raja Brooke of Sarawak, and was uncle of the present Raja, his Highness Charles Johnson Brooke. The heir to the throne is Charles Vyner Brooke, b. Sept. 1874. Other concessions have been made since 1842. The country produces sago, gutta-percha, india-rubber, beeswax, birds' nests, gold, silver, diamonds, antimony, quicksilver, tobacco, rice, rattans, opium, coal, and gambier pepper. ز