How To Use Borneo In A Sentence
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New DNA tests show that Borneo's top predator is one of a kind.
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But I'll certainly let you know before I go backpacking in Borneo.
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
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The Borneons, from being so harassed by these pirates, call the easterly wind 'the pirate wind.'
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
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One of my top priorities was to pay another visit to Asia's only great ape, the orangutan, which is endemic to Borneo and the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
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I also found a book published five years before the state's independence, called Sabah Men At Work, in the North Borneo Social Studies series which indicated that the name Sabah was known to the public.
Undefined
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A strangler fig (Ficus citrifolia) photographed in Kalimantan, Borneo.
Biological diversity in Sundaland
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The trees yielding common camphor and borneol are from genera of the lauraceæ family; also sassafras camphor is from the same family.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887
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It certainly seems to have misled people into thinking that - like the animal photographed on Borneo - Hose's civet is reddish.
That’s no mystery carnivore (part II)… it’s a giant squirrel!
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Mysterious and sophisticated, this mélange of all-natural spices and herbs and woods agarwood, borneol and shiso leaf among others is haunting.
Top 25 Contemporary Perfumes
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She tells us that the principal constituents of lavender are alcohols such as borneol, geraniol and linalool; esters such as geranyle and linalyl; and terpents such as pinene and limonene.
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They can be found in Burma, Borneo, and other parts of Southeast Asia, such as Sikkim or Assam.
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An island of Malaysia off the northeast coast of Borneo . At one time a British crown colony(after1848), it became part of Malaysia in1963.
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The Malay badger (_Mydaus meliceps_) is confined to the mountains of Java (where it is called the teledu), Sumatra and Borneo.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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In Borneo and Malaysia, the Nepenthes pitcher plant traps insects using a jug-shaped attachment, or pitcher, at the end of its leaves.
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The one at Sungei Road, though less fiery than the Borneo variety, is still a spicy hellbroth of fresh cockles, slices of fish cake and beehoon noodles in coconut milk, seasoned with garlic, red chilies, belacan dried shrimp paste, lemongrass, galangal root and turmeric.
Zomg dalek cake!
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They are heavy-bodied, thick-necked anthropoid apes, native to the swampy coastal forests of Sumatra and Borneo.
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Take Malaya, take Borneo and attrit the US forces on the Philippines.
Cheeseburger Gothic » A Sweet Jane alt-hist challenge!
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-- The drug called aloes is the bitter, resinous, inspissated juice of the leaves of various species of an arborescent plant of the lily family, with a developed stem and large succulent leaves, growing principally in tropical and sub-tropical regions, and having a wide extent of range, being produced in Borneo and the East, Africa,
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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A joint initiative with BBC Talent, the octet flew to the jungles of Borneo to undertake a project to save the life of endangered orang-utans in the area.
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It was in this spirit that I was able to roger that houri in Borneo during the Batang Lupar battle, whimpering fearfully the while, and do justice to Mrs Popplewell while in flight from the outraged townsfolk of Harper's Ferry.
Watershed
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The committee wanted the new nation's territory to include not only the Netherlands Indies but also Portuguese Timor and British North Borneo and the Malay Peninsula.
Archive 2004-11-01
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This peculiarity is visible, not only when the Celebesian species are compared with their small-sized allies of Java and Borneo, but also, and in an almost equal degree, when the large forms of Amboyna and the Moluccas are the objects of comparison, showing that this is quite a distinct phenomenon from the difference of size which has just been pointed out.
Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays
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Has an atheist who practices religion in Borneo overcome the beliefs he was indoctrinated with?
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Malaysia's peatland forests are home to several endangered animals, including the Borneo Pygmy elephant and the Sumatran rhino, as well as rare timber species and unique vegetation
Deforestation In Malaysia Occurring Over 3x Faster Than Rest Of Asia
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The fans' player of the season last time around, the tall Argentinian with the hayrick hairstyle is a cultured footballer with a coolness that belies his Wildman of Borneo appearance.
Newcastle United Premier League 2011-12 team guide
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The Guardian-Mother, attended by the Blanche, had conveyed the tourists, in their voyage all over the world, to Sarawak, the capital of a rajahship on the north-western coast of the island of Borneo.
Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics
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But the rather unaggressive ant above, in Bako National Park in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, on the island of Borneo, feeds rather than fights.
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The money will help fund a project in Borneo to care for orphaned orangs.
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Though I don't recall having seen more than a dozen horses in Borneo, the British have been true to their traditions by building two race courses: one at Sandakan and one at Jesselton.
Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China
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Other significant aromatics in traditional Japanese perfumery are gum-resins such as borneol and camphor, myrrh, frankincense and benzoin; roots such as galangal alpinia and spikenard; patchouli leaves; and spices – cloves, cassia, cinnamon and star anise.
Kimono and Incense
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He produced two classics of Old World ornithology, first The Birds of Burma in 1940, followed by The Birds of Borneo in 1960.
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The Japanese beetle, the citrous scale, the chestnut blight, and the elm borer spread to every corner of the world, and from one forgotten pesthole in Borneo, leprosy, long imagined extinct, reappeared.
The Stars My Destination
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From which you may gather that a busy day among the Borneo pirates had quite dissipated the conscientious lunacy which had temporarily come over me in the stokehold the previous night.
Flashman's Lady
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We must not believe, notwithstanding the assertions of almost all zoological writers, that the word orang-otang is applied exclusively in the Malay language to the Simia satyrus of Borneo.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today: Residents in Balikpapan and other parts of East Kalimantan may be familiar with the Borneo Crocodile Recreational Park on Jl. Mulawarman in the city, managed by CV Surya Raya Crocodile Farm.
Archive 2007-06-24
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Florence Margaret Rose, Aug. 11, 1917; specialist in diseases of eye, ear, nose and throat; Philippine health service 1912-14; research Gulion leper colony 1915; British govt. service, Sandakau and Jesselton, B.N. Borneo, 1916-21; travel and study in Europe, 1921-23; Methodist Episcopal.
Alumni History of the University of North Carolina
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The properties of the oils vary with their source, and also with the parts of the plant distilled, distillation of the stalks as well as the leaves tending to reduce the specific gravity and borneol content, and increase the proportion of the lævo-rotatory constituent (lævo-pinene).
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
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Additional digenetic trematodes birds from Borneo (Malaysia)
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Distinguished by its prominent nose, the endangered proboscis monkey lives only on the island of Borneo, where deforestation threatens its continued existence in the wild.
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A new bird species discovered in Borneo: the spectacled flowerpecker
WN.com - Articles related to Tiger tourism and tiger conservation are Varty's mission at South Africa's Tiger Canyons (Part 2)
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In fact, the lower Kinabatangan wetlands, with their swamps and oxbow lakes and forests, host the largest concentration of wildlife in Malaysian Borneo.
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Borneo is a botanist's paradise, with its orchids and rafflesia, the world's largest flower.
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It may not be the Borneo rainforest, but 300 yards across a dewy meadow is a long way in the middle of a cold night, particularly when you have to make the journey half a dozen times, with and without children.
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This interesting and charming creature is unique to Borneo.
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Tragulus kanchil, are common to Sumatra and Borneo, but do not extend into Java, where they are replaced by Tragulas javanicus.
The Malay Archipelago
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Objective: To observe the influence of ingredients in Xingnaojing, such as moschus, borneol and radix curcumae on intestine absorption kinetics of gardenia extract.
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In north Borneo, indigenous groups in the interior areas of the eastern states of Sabah and Sarawak are among the worst affected.
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En færge med 250 ombord er sunket i den østlige del af indonesien, mellem øerne Sulawesi og Borneo.
Politiken.dk Seneste nyt
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(Sabah Times, Jesselton, August 30th, 1963) "The important aspects of the Malaysia Ideal, as I see it, is that it will enable the Borneo territories to transform their present colonial status to 'self government' for themselves and absolute independence in Malaysia simultaneously ...
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Instead I resolved to lead an expedition to Borneo the following year.
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There are two species of deer known in Borneo; one of them, the "rusa,
The Castaways
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Two wren babblers species, Napothera crassa and Kenopia striata (the Striped Wren Babbler) are endemic to the island of Borneo.
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This scheme will give eight eager, outgoing, environmentally interested young people the opportunity to head into the Borneo Jungle on a challenging three-week mission to help endangered orang-utans.
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She tells us that the principal constituents of lavender are alcohols such as borneol, geraniol and linalool; esters such as geranyle and linalyl; and terpents such as pinene and limonene.
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Its large toes protruded laterally as do those of the semiarboreal peoples of Borneo, the Philippines and other remote regions where low types still persist.
The Land That Time Forgot
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Tons of garbage dumped into the sea off Borneo regularly washes up, littering the beach with bottles, cans and plastic bags.
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This process gives accurate results with geraniol, borneol, and menthol, but with linalol and terpineol the figures obtained are only comparative, a considerable quantity of these alcohols being decomposed during the acetylation.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
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So also the great Malay deer (Rusa equina), and the small Tragulus kanchil, are common to Sumatra and Borneo, but do not extend into Java, where they are replaced by Tragulas javanicus.
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1
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However, the new findings show that the Sunda colugo, found only in Indochina and Sundaland, including the large islands of Borneo, Sumatra, and Java, actually represents at least three separate species.
Archive 2008-11-01
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On exposure to the air Valerian oil becomes oxidised, and forms valerianic acid, which together with an alcohol, "borneol," constitutes the active medicinal part of the plant.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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It is a river town in Borneo that is little changed from a century ago when it served as the backdrop for Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim.
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Sipadan is a small island 36 km off the south-east coast of Sabah, which is in the eastern part of Malaysian Borneo, and it offers some of the best scuba diving in the world.
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There was a camel corps from India, the Dyak police from Borneo, Muslim zaptiehs in their red fezzes, soldiers from Fiji, Egypt, Sierra Leone, Zanzibar and many more.
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The answer to conservation in Borneo is not to try to put the toothpaste back into the tube.
Times, Sunday Times
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A sample of the essential oil extracted from the rhizomes was found to have the following characteristics: SG (30°C) 0.9724 and ND (30°C) 1.5002, and to contain d-alpha-pinene 1.5 per cent; d-camphene 3.5 per cent; cineol 9.6 per cent; a-camphor 4.2 per cent; d-borneol 1.5 per cent; sesquiterpenes 10 per cent; sesquiterpene alcohols 48 per cent.
Chapter 28
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Two explanations are given of the origin of the myth of the Kinabalu Lake -- one is that in the district, where it was supposed to exist, extensive floods do take place in very wet seasons, giving it the appearance of a lake, and, I believe there are many similar instances in Dutch Borneo, where a tract of country liable to be heavily flooded has been dignified with the name of _Danau_, which is Malay for _lake_, so that the mistake of the European cartographers is a pardonable one.
British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo
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The tropical borneol scent that is usually gently wafted throughout the cabin is replaced with the fragrance of truffle oil to ready the palette as the driver is navigated to their meal.
Automotive Headlines
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Proceed to the Kelenanap ox- bow lake for a short jungle walk (if weather permits). Experience the wilderness of Borneo.
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We made a saturated solution of camphor in brandy, and gave a teaspoonful of it on moist sugar for a dose, adding three drops of Kayu Puteh oil, extracted from a Borneon wood and called cajeput oil in England, a very strong aromatic medicine.
Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak
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The endangered orang-utans live wild only on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo, and are the largest arboreal mammals on earth.
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On exposure to the air Valerian oil becomes oxidised, and forms valerianic acid, which together with an alcohol, "borneol," constitutes the active medicinal part of the plant.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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Sukarno, Indonesia's first president, had declared a "Confrontation" against Malaysia in 1964, which then included Singapore along with the Borneo states of Sabah and Sarawak.
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This interesting and charming creature is unique to Borneo.
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East Malaysia, consisting of the federal territory of Labuan and the states of Sabah and Sarawak, occupies the northern part of the island of Borneo, bordering Indonesia and the Sultanate of Brunei.
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He later became senior medical officer in Borneo with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
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It could be likened to the specialised needs of a lepidopterist researching the markings of a species of butterflies to be found only in Borneo.
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He went on an expedition to Borneo.
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Proceed to the Kelenanap ox- bow lake for a short jungle walk (if weather permits). Experience the wilderness of Borneo.
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[Seilan -- _MS. _], in the fairs of Sumatra; eaglewood from Coromandel; camphor in Sunda and Chincheo, but better in Borneo; myrobalans [32] in Cambaya, Balagate, and Malabar; incense from Arabia; myrrh from
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55 1636-37 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
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Umno continues to benefit from a gerrymander that favours rural Malay seats on peninsular Malaya as well as Sabah and Sarawak in northern Borneo.
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Argus of Borneo, excessively elongated secondaries; and its tail is not formed of normal rectrices, from the middle of which spring two very long feathers, a little curved and arranged like a roof; but it consists of twelve wide plane feathers, regularly tapering, and ornamented with ocellated spots, arranged along the shaft.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882
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The clouded leopard is the largest predator on the Borneo and Sumatra Islands.
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She lives somewhere in the wilds of Borneo.
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We were forced to hotfoot it to Borneo, where we lived on the edge of the jungle for the next twenty years, whittling wood into supposedly erotic shapes that we then sold as tribal trinkets.
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The adventure was part of Terra Incognito's outstanding ecotour of Borneo that involved not only creepy caves, but also elephants, monkeys, crocodiles and orangutan sightings.
Harmon Leon: The Creepy Gomantong Cave of Borneo
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This process gives accurate results with geraniol, borneol, and menthol, but with linalol and terpineol the figures obtained are only comparative, a considerable quantity of these alcohols being decomposed during the acetylation.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
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He thinks for a minute before responding, "I did a film in the Borneo rainforest, and I had to eat steak tartare in the Borneo rainforest. The meat had all gone off.
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The same remark applies to the Russian Ballet; the Yugo-Slav handbell-ringers; the vegetarian Indian-club swingers from the Karakoram Himalayas; the polyphonic gong-players from North Borneo; the synthetic quarter-tone quartette from San Domingo; the anthropophagous back-chat comedians from the Solomon Islands; not to mention a host of other interesting companies, troupes, corroborees and pow-wows which are now in our midst for the purpose of cementing the confraternity of nations.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-11
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Despite being set in the jungles of Borneo, where anacondas are not known to slither, the film has a host of giant computer-animated specimens, but it doesn't think of much to do with them.
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Sipadan is a small island 36 km off the south-east coast of Sabah, which is in the eastern part of Malaysian Borneo, and it offers some of the best scuba diving in the world.
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I was sorry to hear about Christopher, my apologies for not attending the funeral; I was up to my neck in Borneo jungle.
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In the Borneo section there are exhibits of oils, also sago, which is a white powder-the dried sap of a tree.
The British Empire Exhibition, A Study in Geography, Resources, and Citizenship of the British Empire
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Other significant aromatics in traditional Japanese perfumery are gum-resins such as borneol and camphor, myrrh, frankincense and benzoin; roots such as galangal alpinia and spikenard; patchouli leaves; and spices – cloves, cassia, cinnamon and star anise.
Kimono and Incense
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Rhubarb, Cortex phellodendri, Cacumen platycladi and Borneol of Shuangbai-Yantong spray were qualitatively analysed by TLC. This method is simple, repeatable and satisfying.
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The price of siamangs could reach $157, which is considerably more expensive than the smaller species of gibbon, whereas a Borneo orangutan could be sold for $406.
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Scientists have discovered that the clouded leopard found on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra is an entirely new species of cat.
New State of Matter? And other scientific press releases
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The small falconets hunt the forests of Southeast Asia, Borneo and the Philippines.
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My all-time favourite holiday was a family trip to Borneo.
Times, Sunday Times
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With incidents such as the mass poisoning in Borneo, the pygmy elephants could be going the same way.
Times, Sunday Times
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This interesting and charming creature is unique to Borneo.
