New Life New Land
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1937.
for the Gores, and
Page
THE BORNEO BREED
Wout Pavel
ILD piga gave the Tunn Cowboy many headaches-
Tay
Balaus, the
Haji
Saturday afternoon-and it's the "big city" for the Gores and the cowboy-cowboys. Seen in the farm's Landrover are Mrs Game, Kobli (Standing), Adrionna (seated next to Mrs Gars) and, in the rour, the learner-manager Ashkar Habollah who was off to Jesselton, 60 miles away, to play football.
and DuAnh and bỏ anh
attention. that in (foreman), Bogon bin Chinese live in clave, harmony, lavished upon them by the Abdullah Bashhid,, son of a Ja, North - Borneo's
and I'l counterpart. Tunn Cowboy and hile cowboy- former Native Chief, The pigs were fond of small buffalo calves-the of the Texas,
or Wyoming, cowboys.
be greatly missed by all the monkeys just adored music.
ranch manager, In the United The animats graze in the six enige riders now that he's back
Ares, which la of his Engilah masido, school. And there you have two aspects of life out in the States, his bonds would be thousand
Cowboyn. In North divided by twenty-seven miles Robin has seen it all-the wide open spaces of North Borneo where the Tuan Cow- called
distinguish them of fencing into twenty-seven never-ending Borneo, to
fight against boy often dreams of the confined greenery of his native from the Tuan (Mirter) Cow- forge paddocks. Thero are inllang, sometimes four foot In Kent but, more often than not, forgets his nostalgia in the boy, they are cowboy-cowboys, corrals where calves are height and, as tough as old boot sweltering, heat-shimmering hurly-burly of cattle-raising And it's quite simple when you castrated and branded with the leather. This in North Bomen's reatise that diminutives ore well-known "K.S." brand wiki Jungle grass which is in six thousand acres of mountain-rimmed pastores that, formed in the Mainy language, "Kabun Borob" on their left beaten down by mob grazinu not so long ago, were jungle forests.
which is the Hrigua franca of the quarters and check branded and trampling. He has seen hia country, by doubling words.
With 裁 number. There are father's no hundred acre Reg loves his Bajau cowboy- sprayings auch drenchings in the demonstration plot. This is. Reg the cowboys, who ride their small corrals in order to enforce strict Gore's attempt to show the local Join the herd. wild pige-and out went the horses with the eato and grace tiek control. There in the feed- people that farming can be pro- builo calves. Not so today, of of tho old American Indians. Ink of molasse-not because illable. He's growing padi (rico) It's difficult work at Bóroly: a world—the gay, dashing Bujaus
Bruch the Are Muslims
nearby and the animals are hungry, but to end is changing the type of constant fight against the mass of the farm course. Reg grow wish to the The Bajaus
got them accustomed to human browsing to produre an encroachment of a tropical kampongs (village), the farmer whereby u wilderness with its omnipresent Dusuns,” always eeger to visit beings. And, just lloc the Wild economical picture West of the films, there are mad with "about 50 head of hazards. But as the Tuna Cow- Soroby to learn new, methods,
and their cattle may look forward to I bucking bronchos
boy from Kent says, "There's and tho ubiquitous Chinese whooping riders-in this
case good living. He has seen the always something new to learn shopkeepera at Kota Belud the Bojdu cowboy-cowboyn
of range being stocked with fner and You foon find out that There nie only two other Euro- Sorob.
grossen for grazing, the daily what's right in agriculture is peans within sixty miles of the Reg Gore loves hores. After rido to tend the herd at 8.30 right wherever you may be."
farm-the District Officer at Kota Belud and a missionary on the Sorob plain.
Reg Gore (Reginald Edwin) left Frog's Island Farm, Herne, Heme Bay, Kent, in June, 1950,
to become the Tuan Cowboy of Kota Belud, the nearest town- ship-alno miles away from his rolling neres, his 'corrals, his ranch buildings and his cowboy
cowboys.
He found the Sorob Catile Farm ப different proposition from kis oki agricultural pur- sults in Kont.
First of all thera were the manitoys-a whate troop of them living in close proximity to his rambling, Mahy-style bungalow and the other farm buldings. At night, the Tunn Cowboy tunes in bla battery- powered radio to the Jesselton station some 60 miles
away,
And, as the stralus of miusic float over the air and across the plain, the monkeys scampar down from their trees sunxi sitting no quietly na any Alberi Hall audience, squat
close the
house to ten spellbound to same rock 'n' roll or a quieter plece from the morr. serious programmes.
Reg is very sond of the monkeys. But he doem't r wild pigs
In came
hobits of Borneo buffaloes, and history saza they were Berce he soon saw to it-that andreals warriors äther on sea or land.
Young Robin "cowboy-cowboy" poses_for_the camora at the start of the day's round-up--6.30 o.m. With him is a typical Bajeu cowboy-cowboy of Sorob -fine horsemen and the friendliest of people.
with calves were kept with their offspring. No wild pig ever born
dare to wankt challenge the majesile kerbau, slow to anger but a formidable opponent when roused.
The North Borneo wild pig is aidiler and there are several of these Berce creatures roaming about his six thousand neres, Wild pigs were one reason why
buffalo elves very few grew up. The buffalo Jg a And then there were
the Gregarious anknal and, as soon cowboy-cowboya of Sorob. Reg,
•us calves Aure rect dropped, the
Tuan Cowboy, as he is mothers would leave them and called in Kota Belud where the
ever
Led by "Ethel" those Zobus arrive at the corrals from their hillside grazing to take their daily ration of molasses. "Ethel" is so tome that she will allow children to ride on her back.
Today, in North Borneo, they live from the sea or us in the case of the Balaus of Kote Belud,, on horseback.
WILT
East service with the Yorkshire Regiment, he revived the Thanet and Herne Harriers, of which he was Master in the seasons, 1954-55 and 1935-56. There le no hunting pink in North Borneo, but to compen- sate him for his exile from Kent and the foxhounds, there are six thousand actes over which he can ride to his heart's content on the small, but study Bornen and sure-footed North horse. And ride he does every day, over the 'rolling gravaland's of Sorob.
Mrs Gore, who is the daughter of Mr and Mrs R. J. Hatfield, Bellinge, Herne Bay, also shares his love of horses and when she isn't careering madly to a Red Cross meeting at Kota Belud in the [Em's Landrover you'll usually and her un horseback Komewhere in that six thousand acres,
This Zobu bull surveys the rolling range of Sorob from his hillside grazing ground. This is the best bull on the farm and it is being used to produce a healthy brood of Zebus-—hardy cattla eminently suitable for meat and dairy requiramanti.
But as Mrs Goce polnis out, there's
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n kerosene-operated slove and oven and enough food during the weelt to satisfy manly ap petites, There are books and the radio and happy get-togethers with the cowboy-cowboys up at the house. "A railsfying life," she says.
"At weekends In spotions.white uniform you'll spo Mrs Gero in Kota Belud in her role of a Red Cross officer and she's enthusias- te over the unfagging intarest of the local people whom she teaches. Up at the nearby Rest House, Reg Gore will be breaking the loneliness of Surob with a yarn or two with visitors from Jesselton. Young Adrienne will be imnursed in the latest butch at girls' magazines.,, And yout Robin, in Horne Bay, will be weekenda he treaming of the
A finer set of cowpunchers couldn't find anywhere. you
Adeleine, too, is rarely out of They ride the Sorob range with the saddle. She is the Gore's
Cowboy and they ten-year-old daughter and came z., the Tuen
the eneral treatments of When Sorob was started in spent such a short time ago by to the needs of 350 out with them from England to the unknals, the round-up or 1953 with Colonial Development the Kota Belud Rest House, minister bead of cattle-hardly Zebus North Borneo.
The Turn Cowboy looka stray buttakes, the dumming of and Welfare funds supplies had 200 buffaloes and a sinllion-led
Robin, their cleven-year-old small streams for a water supply, to be dropped by the R.AF ahead to the time when Borob's femily of 40 maras and foals.
son, has been with the family the spraying and drenching of Today there's a good road from empty six thousand acres wili Not 4 large responsibility. on
holiday from. Eddington the cattle, The feeding of Jesselton to Koia Belud and an be the muin beef provider certainly-but an importent one House School in Herne Bay. He molasses and salt, the every earth track from Kota Belud North Doraco, At the moment, —for North Borneo-fuïurez
The iden behind Soreb, which friendly cowboy-cowboys
was quickly adopted by the day chook on fences and, most out to the farm. But li is still a start-and it is only a start
and exciting of all, the beating out isolated out there by the Sorob hos been made. But steaty 19 A communal, commercial his most prized possession is a of hugo grass fees that sweep River and the Gore family at progress has been Tantutained project launched by the Kola genuine North Borneo Belud Local Authority and run
parang seross the Sore plain.
by
the
North
Borneo
~ by Ralph Shaw
Agricultural Department, of which Gore is now a member, is to form the mücious of a large, beef-producing herd from the antināts already there. From the herd,' stock will be improved and excellent steers will be
shipped all over the colony. (an elaborate chopping knife). Another aim is to improve presented to him by Sorob's gromland for grazing
learner-modager, Ashkar bin Already the Sorob Cattle Hasbollah, son of the late Kota Farm is something of a show- Belud Arsiatent District Officer, piece in the west-coast area of whose recent untimely death North Borneo, Its methods are was the occasion for
Great being copied by local farmers mcuming in the area. und its sleek, well-fed Zobu Young Robin in- also great borda are a fiño tribute to the friends with the
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night, rending by the light of and the Sorob methods nie thele kerosene lamps, know being copied Throughout only the whispering quietness country. In the corrals
there
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A killer? I fear Ferdinand is just a fraud
THERE are many who maintain_that_It__is Impossible to domesticate even the white type of ferret such as my little Jill, although I know people who keep these delightful beasts as pets.
Far worse is the case of the dark and bloodthirsty polecat-ferret the polecat belongs to the weasel family) whose reputation for untam- able ferocity i uly BITE- passed by that of the wild
cat.
My favourite authority. writing a hundred years 180, stated categorically that these ferrets must be erony- bred for severul generations before they become at all manageable.
Fat... but fast
A pussers two ferrets at the moment both household nuisances that have been known to sleep in my bed when I la cold
Jalin and graceful. and girlish and weighs just 1lb She has just nequired ner winter coat and is impos- sibly beautiful.
My "dark and blood- thirsty" Hob la so fat. with 19 stomach perpetually grounded. that healde him à
Jooks like dachshund whippct.
a
Yot at a plach he can gallop faster than I. He is three years old, in welgha Ever Jib
Like a kitten
New Hob's mother Wa completely wild polecat who recently escaped to her nativo mavatinside, while his father ü Urst-crass halsbreed between poincat and ficlict an untainable devil.
Was
But Hob is as tume as Jig 1 He can be idled like a kitten by anyone and only once in his ite hes he ever bitten a human being wo All agreed that the Victim richly deserved his fate. He will beg for food like a dog. uide it under the sofe, and eous back to another plece while in eats the Drak lot,
As well as Hob he gela called 41 sorts of things such, as Paleo or Ferdinand, and
he
amlably answers to them providing they are called in his private tone of voice.
Down in the villags they say, "Just wait until the rubblia return: Oruiz Ferret'll give them beans"
But I wonder. Born since the myxomatosis, he has never seen a rabbit. As biz sa a rabbit himself, we can't taka hiņi stackyard ratting because he'd inevitably get stuck in the holes. Cats and dogs ha apparently Recepts in the same way that 110 does 119-na well-meaning t rather dense honorary ferrets. And, as far as I know, be ins never killed anything.
Nature fan
When out for a walk be avoids the nasty damp holes, but stops to smell the flowers and Kmetimes rub his face in them. Hence the name Ferdinand.
And I fear that when I do eventually take The Higgost Forret in the World rabbiting holl disgrace both himself and his so-called master,
He'll probably Wo galloping down the first hole to see if his beloved Jill is there
There
happens to be a rabbit in real- dence he'll try to resterno. If It's empty at nign and dry het! cull up for a quiet nap.
But if it's one of those damp and spider webby abominations. holi bolt back Indignentie, demanding to be cooked up. n his warm haybox with Jili bUSIES him and a bit of raw liver for. hit tum's sake.
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