Sandakan, the capital of the territory of the British North Borneo Company. Founded about 1880, it had a pop. (1891) of over 7000, one-half being Chinese, 131 Europeans, and the rest Sulus, Malays, and Javanese.
Sandakan
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 141
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