Author: HYATT, S. PORTAL,
Title: The Black Pearl of Peihoo. A tale of the Malay Seas.
Description: London, Religious Tract Society, [circa], 1920. Small thick 8°, blind stamped cloth, (viii), 226pp., coloured frontisp. Juvenile, mainly set in Central British Borneo, with as main character a young orphan-lad, serving as an assistant to a famous naturalist (George North).. commissioned by a great scientific society to obtain moving pictures of the wild life of the Bornean Jungle, especially of the long-nosed monkey.. (p.10), incl. many notes on the 'head-hunters', the Chinese, a visit to the Raja's town Kaduk, etc. Scarce. Good copy. (some occas. foxing, 1st blank gone.)

Keywords: borneo, juvenile/buur