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Harrisson, T. 1938. Borneo jungle: an account of the Oxford Expedition to Sarawak. London, Lindsay Drummond Ltd.. pp. i-x, 1-254.

Borneo jungle: an account of the Oxford Expedition to Sarawak

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Moore, A.W. 1938. A tribute, Ev: Kalulong. In: Harrisson, T., Borneo jungle: an account of the Oxford Expedition to Sarawak. London: pp. 229-236.
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Harrisson, T. 1938. Remembered jungle.
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Note
Location Sarawak Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Buffalo and rhino very rare and local within the area covered by the Oxford Expedition.

Note
Location Sarawak Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis) Year 1938

The Dyaks will hunt after one rhino for weeks to get the horn. They make long journeys into the interior to get rhinoceros.

Note
Location Sarawak Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis) Year 1938

Oxford Expedition. Used a path which they believed had been used by a Dyak hunter following up a rhinoceros some months before.

Note
Location Sarawak Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Chinese in Borneo. The Dyaks will hunt after one rhino for weeks, for the horn is of great value to the Chinese, who use it as an aphrodisiac.

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