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Dyak:
... The Dyak are one of the many groups of indigenous people inhabiting the island of Borneo. They are generally divided into the Sea Dyaks, or Iban, who inhabit the coastal areas and rivers; the Land Dyaks of SW Borneo; the Bahau of central and East Borneo; and the Ngadju of South Borneo. Dyak strongholds were rampant during the 19th century.
And Dyak pirates are quite the stuff of literature! In Patrick O'Brian's "The Nutmeg of Consolation," the fourteenth novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series, the story opens with Captain Jack Aubry and his crew shipwrecked in the South China Sea. While stranded, they fight a ferocious battle against Dyak pirates. Eventually, they are rescued by a Chinese trader. Dyak Pirates also appear in Edgar Rice Burroughs' "The Monster Men". |