Sarawak was part of the realm of Brunei until 1841 when James Brooke was granted a sizable area of land in the southwest area of Brunei – around the city of Sarawak (now Kuching) and the nearby mining region of Bau – from Bruneian Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin II.
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The core of the early Sarawak economy was antimony, later followed by gold, which was mined in Bau by Chinese syndicates who imported numerous workers from China.
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They allowed the Borneo Company Limited (the Borneo Company) to assist in managing the economy.
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In 1934 he was called to the Bar and a few days later sailed to Kuching in Sarawak as a newly recruited District Officer to work for Rajah Charles Vyner Brooke, last of the White Rajahs of Sarawak.
During one engagement with Illanun Sulus in 1862, Captain James Brooke, the white rajah of Sarawak, sank four proas, out of six engaged, by ramming them with his small four gun steamer Rainbow.
Bertram Willes Dayrell Brooke (1876–1965), member of the family of White Rajahs who ruled Sarawak for a hundred years