ASIA + HC 445 .5 .11 S2256 1885a REPORT ON THE rUTATAN SUB-DISTEICT, FOE THE EIGHT MONTHS ENDED. 31st DECEMBER, 1884. BRITISH NORTH BORNEO. Printed by William Jacob Pozario, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, SaNDAKAN, BRITISH NORTH BORNEO. 1885. CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ITHACA, N.Y. 14853 John M. Echols Collection on Southeast Asia KKOCH LIBRARY CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 3 1924 078 409 731 REPORT ON THE PUTATAN SUB-DISTRICT FOR THE Eight Monthts Ended 31st December, 1884. BY S. E. DALEYMPLE, ESQUIEE, ASSISTANT EESIDENT IN CHAEGE PEOVINCE KEPPEL. We have much pleasure in making room in our columns for the follow- ing exhaustive Eeport on the Putatan District by Assistant- Eesident- in-Charge, S. E. Dalrymple which has been placed at our disposal by the Government. The Putatan River passed under the Company's rule on the 1st May, 1 884, and was formally taken over, by His Excellency the Governor, on the 8th of the same month. The spirit shewn by the native population — both Bajau and Dusun, — was, from the beginning, all that could be desir- ed in a newly taken-over district, and it may be noted, that disposition has continued and improved up to the present date. The lines on which the administration of this large and populous district was, at the outset, to be conducted, were set forth by His Excellency the Governor, in a des- patch dated 10th May, 1884, and were, broadly stated, that all native cus- toms, so far as compatible with civilized usage, were to be respected, the district treated as a purely native one, and its inhabitants gradually taught how to govern themselves, the chief aim of the Magistrate in Charge being to gain personal influence among them and to cause the Company's rule to be loved and respected. These lines have been adhered to, and the bare fact of over $900 of Poll Tax having been collected in a district in which a large number of the villages were, for some time, subject to external political influences, and without a Polieo Gov.!>c:X-l& having been, during the first year, stationed in it, may be cited us con- clusive proof of their success. Before the advent of the Company's rule, the district was without a " Tamu " or fair, and imported all its tobacco from the adjacent district of Inanam. Aflourishing "tamu" now assem- bles every tenth day at the Dusun village of Pagansakan, situate a few miles up the Putatan river, at which brisk trading goes on, cloth, dried fish ( "belis" ), iron bars, salt, &c., being bartered for large quantities of manufactured tobacco, brought down from the prolific tobacco districts lying to the South of Kinabulu. Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924078409731 [ 2 J Gi'Oijvuphiral. Geographically the district may be described us a perfectly level, alluvial plain, on a roughly approximate estimate some forty square miles in superficial oxtont. Its physical boundaries are — to the North Bukit Mallntod and a range of low hills extending thence N. \V. to Tanjong Liadan. (Dusun "Kalat "), and forming the watershed dividing the Putatan and Inanam systems : to the West the sua: to the South the Suwaugan river and a spur thrown oft' from the coast ranges, and to the East the mountain ranges of the interior, running |up to, perhaps some 4,000 feet in altitude. This broad expanse of plain is however relieved by low hills, here and there, which may average from 100 to 300 feet in elevation. The district is drained by seven streams — (1) The main Puta- tan river, going, along its upper course, by the Dusun name of Pagunan ( Dusun " Pagunan, " country ) : ( 2 ) the Putatdhn, an affluent of the former, whose debouchure is at the village of Nohbong : (3) the Kalupis, which discharges into the maiuriver at the village of Bubiihit and drains a. valley of the same name as the former, lying to the eastward of Bukit Malintod : (4) the Sugud, named at its mouth — at the village of Ru- maia, the Tarikan river, and draining the populous Sugud valley to the south : ( 5 ) the Permiian discharging into the Putatan close to its south- ern mouth, at the village of Ketlan — this is however, more a 6alt- water creek than a river : and (6) the river Suwangan, a small stream flowing •into the bight of Pitiiru Bay and forming the frontier between the Puta- tan and the adjacent independent district of lunar ut. Besides the above enumerated, the Putatan plain is intersected by two artificial irrigation canals, names respectively Pappas Goringsing and Pappas Babkangkong ( "Pappas"- Dusun "ditch," "canal" ). These take their rise at the villages from which they are respectively named and'discharge into the Pitagas, or northern branch of the Putatan, — the first-named at, and the second a short distance below, the Bajau village of Pitagas. The main Putatan river bifurcates at the Bajau village of Lokbunok, its northern, or Pitagas branch, flowing into the sea to the south of Tanjong Am, aud its southern, or Teltpuk branch, to the south of Bukit Pandan Pandan. This latter point, together with that of Tanjong Aril are locally unknown by the names assigned to them in the Chart, viz., Duinpil Point and Loiitat Point. A silted-up mouth of- the northern branch lies equi-distaut from the two existing mouths and at the north end of a steep hill abut, ting on the beach, named Bukit Linohuk ( "Corner hill " ). The Putatan valley only becomes defined as such on ascending to the village of Buba- hit, expanding into an extensive plain below that point. The river is said to have a long " Ulu " or upper course, and to take its rise among the highlands constituting the " divides " of the upper Tawaran, Pappar and Pagallan rivers. It's main axis, on nearing the coast, is from N. E. to S. "VV., with a very serpentine course as it nears the 6ea. I have the honor to furnish a sketch survey of the whole District on a scale of 2 inches to the mile,. GeologiruL The soil of the district is a clayey loam of great fertility and of a depth — as evidenced by a well-suction in the heart of the district, of five to six feet. Below this comes a stratum of fluviutile clay,, siipcr-iinposod en on n bed of disintegrated-cornl suud, which affords internnl evidence of Laving once formed the bod of a mangrove swamp. TJiis proves the .plain to have been formed liy the same agencies which are at this °rf> b No a-s. Name of Head-man 4 6 % P 1 Psigiinan. DllBUll. Siilutaiii. Si 23 23 2 Piipinsubm. »» Suwalau. „ 4 7 3 Nuhbnng »1 Tinggal. „ 15 20 4 l'utatolm 1) Bumpok. ,, 9 10 5 Kalupis « Banting. „ 41 70 6 Karahnan ti Kiilikong. „ 7 15 7 Babahit. Pangliina. Batu 19 36 8 Kinibupang. «> Maharaja Lila. Batu 28 47 9 Lumbaian. H Malajon. Si 17 26 10 Luba. Balitan. ,, 4 5 11 Kumaia. it Pangar. „ 25 39 12 Inilai. Jl Pali. 3 11 13 Tampaasak. 11 Belingao. Batu 7 24 14 Marang. »l Bahi. Si i IS 23 la Kflndis. it Bohol. „ J 16 Kanawan. w Tugal. 8 11 17 Pinappa. 11 Batinggi. „ 3 4 18 Ketuan. Malintang. „ 19 28 \<> Lambanak. Malambai. . „ 14 28 20 Ran damn. Kawan, „ 10 19 21 Tenawi. llantri Babu. 18 34 22 Buit. do. do. 20 32 23 Nelliyu. Limbang. Si 20 29 24 Ketiduan. )» Kilang. ,, 12 15 25 Kurai. Bambok. „ 7 6 2G ICiunop. Tkga-as. ( Unknown) 11 11 27 Malintod. Dusun. Awang. Si 11 20 28 Mnmae. ii Bantiip. „ 3 8 29 Kabubo Linkong. „ 11 4 30 Bhang. ii Sandakong ,, 31 Babhakong. llajambul. „ 10 14 32 NnsOb ii Pengeran. Batu 13 20 33 Tunoh. Ladik Si 6 12 34 Lungkap. ii Bahinta. ,, 24 49 35 Goring6ing. ii Lasaau. „ 16 25 36 Gallput. >i Binggal. „ 3 4 37 Mumboh. Perkassa. Batu 14 38 38 Patikar. M do. do. 7 13 39 Kahawang. Musai Si 3 4 40 Binduan. Putatan Eajau. 'llng-adang „ Total. Bandar Lahun, O.K. Si 6 15 456 798 41 !" Deromoangsa, 0. K. 64 I'erdana. Batu 42 Lokbunoh. '* Stia 8 8 43 Keiiau. 1'ola Si 17 25 44 Togorongon. Wang „ 5 9 45 Tanjong Aru. ii fviln.ii Batu 6 9 46 Pitagas. it [man Si 30 42 •47 Marunlom. \ameraja Pangeran Total. Grand Total — Biunms. 11 >> 110 157 456 798 bajaus. 110 157 566 955 L 10 J ANNEXE, No. 2. Cr. Dr. $ Cts. f Cts. Cash Receipts. Farms. 882 for 1884. Duty on Imports. Royalty on Exports. 37 02 105 06 *Poll Tax. 901 13 ' Licences. 21 Fines, fees. &c. 27 82 Public Buildings. 1 50 Cash Pa ymente Resident & Staff. 1196 55 for 1884. Harbour & Marine. 300 20 Transport & Freight. 33 10 **Public Buildings, 876 76 Miscellaneous. 57 70 Public "Works. 6 92 Boats & Messengers. 6 87 Stationery &c. Police & Jails. 2 30 1 50 Agency Commission. 18 Balance. 506 55 1 1 $2482 08 $2482 08 * This includes the balance collected and entered in 1885. ** Includes $60 and entered in 1885. K.B. The rebate of 10 per cent allowed on the bulk of 1884. Foil Tax, appear in 1885, accounts. -U7i- ANNEXE, No. 3 SUMMARY. a> 6 o bo bo . bo ♦» * ^ u (-1 a eJS en a O O eTj a •« a CM P« » 1884. Hg o S t-H j 3 » — B — 3 CO , — | — « OS H-l SO cS «8 = tl ■*a *» -" Eh o o r* o o o"^ H H o H H H 8 s $ May-Decem . . 154.} 220£ 375 9,098 8,609 17,709 X n ] £ = 5- July, August, Kent. 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Tomis. 100 8 Sandatan. 500 9 Liwan. 10 11 12 *Koporingan. Simalang. b Penusuk. 200 600 1000 13 Andusan. 70 14 15 Kandakong. Palutan. 100 70 16 Tobo. 300 17 Lotus. 18 19 TiongTubanj Eanukatan. 1000 20 Tababar, 1000 21 Sinalian 500 22 Taga-as. 500 * These three districts produce the finest tobacco. a This district lies on "Ulu" Einabatangan ( perhaps, in reality Ulu Labuk.) i This district lies on the Ulu Paitan. S. E. DALEYMPLE. Asst Rcsident-in-charge, Province KeppcL