3-052-775 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

M. Carl Bock, traveller, of the Dutch Expedition in Borneo, 1880. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Sawyer and Bird. 'Mr. Carl Bock, a native of Copenhagen, thirty years of age, and a scientific naturalist, was...commissioned by the Dutch Indian Government to explore the east and south parts of the great island of Borneo...he arrived at Tangaroeng, the residence of his Highness the Sultan of Koetei, Mohammed Suleiman Khalifat-ul-Moeminin...[and] made known his travelling plans of exploring the northern part of Koetei, and afterwards the southern, and attempting the overland journey to Bandjermasin. The Sultan...furnished him with an interpreter for the Dyak language, and also put at his disposal a large prau, or canoe. Mr. Bock, with his twenty-five followers, left Tangaroeng on Aug. 10, and navigated the great Mahakkan river up as far as the Moeara Kaman...[The] Dyaks are...inveterate "head-hunters," but in other respects good and honest people...From Longwai Mr. Bock went further north in order to find the Orang Poonan (also called Olo-Ott), or forest people, whom no European had before seen...both sexes go almost naked. But the rumour that [they] are furnished with a caudal appendage is, according to Mr. Bock, entirely false'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.