Project Gutenberg 2025-08-09 Public domain in the USA. 1541 Brooke, Margaret, Lady 1849 1936 Brooke, Margaret Alice Lilly De Windt, lady, rani of Sarawak De Windt, Margaret Windt, Margaret de Margaret, Ranee of Sarawak Swettenham, Frank Athelstane, Sir 1850 1946 14000059 My life in Sarawak $aLondon :$bMethuen & co. ltd, $c1913. Carol Brown, Peter Becker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "My life in Sarawak" by Lady Margaret Brooke is a memoir and historical account written in the early 20th century. It chronicles the Ranee’s life beside the Brooke rulers, blending personal impressions with portraits of Sarawak’s peoples, landscapes, and the distinctive, native-inclusive governance her family pursued. Expect court ceremony, women’s society and crafts, river journeys, and encounters with piracy and headhunting reframed through everyday domestic and political life. The opening of the memoir sets the scene with Sir Frank Swettenham’s preface praising Brooke rule and urging just stewardship of Malay peoples, then an introduction recounting how James Brooke became Rajah, suppressed piracy, and built councils and forts that involved Malays and Dyaks in government. The narrative then shifts to the author’s arrival: seasick stops en route, first sights and smells of the Sarawak River, a formal reception at the Astana, and her wish to meet the women who had stayed away from public ceremony. She hosts a landmark reception for Malay ladies, adopts local dress, learns weaving and sumptuous gold-thread embroidery from a Seripa, and sketches the country’s rivers, tribes, and waterbound life. Early tension follows: a Dyak raid on Sibu under Lintong (Mua-ari), the Rajah’s expedition up the Rejang, the author’s guarded river travels and stay in the fort, vivid riverine descriptions, and a comically tense false alarm at dawn—all establishing the mix of danger, etiquette, and cross-cultural intimacy that defines the beginning. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/cu31924021573468 20220521100836brooke 1913 gb Reading ease score: 68.3 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Sarawak (Malaysia) -- Description and travel Brooke, Margaret, Lady, 1849-1936 Queens -- Malaysia -- Sarawak -- Biography DS Text Category: Biographies Category: History - British Category: History - Modern (1750+) Category: History - Royalty 774152 2025-08-11T12:00:30.624187 text/html 726226 2025-08-09T16:58:31 text/html 5308918 2025-08-11T12:00:45.951152 application/epub+zip 5307267 2025-08-11T12:00:34.397210 application/epub+zip 548504 2025-08-11T12:00:32.178185 application/epub+zip 6167688 2025-08-11T12:00:52.958113 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 6079915 2025-08-11T12:00:44.026145 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 608990 2025-08-11T12:00:28.328191 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 589049 2025-08-09T16:58:31 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15347 2025-08-11T12:00:53.133108 application/rdf+xml 14721 2025-08-11T12:00:32.793180 image/jpeg 2028 2025-08-11T12:00:32.477179 image/jpeg 9257765 2025-08-11T12:00:30.791216 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia