8/18/2004

 

what i learned about borneo

 

Portuguese , Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, English, Japanese of 1942, and the Dyak making rice, sago, tobacco, millet, coconuts, pepper, sweet potatoes, sugarcane, coffee, rubber, Coal, 13,000 sq mi of rain forest were destroyed by fire, heavily populated on the edges, gold and diamonds, so-so large the 3rd largest rock on this earth, dense jungle and mountains virtually impassable, elephant, deer, orangutan who build nests of mangled and meshed together foliage and sleep 100 ft in the air not afraid to fall, gibbon, Malay bear, crocodile, slimy poisonous snakes, and Rhinoceroses say it with me, RHINOCEROSES! You can scream and you can shout but they will never find you.