Author: PERELAER, M.T.H.,
Title: Ran Away from the Dutch or Borneo from south to north. Transl. from the orig. Dutch by M. Blok & adapted by A.P. Mendes.
Description: London, Sampson Low, 1887. Thick 8°, original pictorial gilt lettered & decorative cloth, (vi), 376pp., frontisp., 9 other plates after drawings by W.C. Jackson, vocabulary of Dayak words. The adventures of 4 deserters from the Royal N.E. Indian Army (1 French, 1 mixed-blood & 2 Swiss mercenaries) being pursued by the Dutch Army. (bds. soiled, shaved at extremities,some slight cracking of inner joint, tiny waterstain on upper margin throughout, title-p. & tissue-guard to front. foxed, but all in all a reasonable copy.)

Keywords: borneo/juvenile/19thc./buur